Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After his graduation from the University, he studied law at the University of lowa and was admitted to the bar in 1908. Since then, his main activity has been in writing, having published several volumes of verse. He served with distinction in the war, holding the rank of lieutenant colonel...
...Army Air Service men see in this an outcome of the Mitchell controversy and a move to forestall a United Air Service. They stress in particular the fact that not more than 30 or 40% of the young men will be able to pass the physical tests. Colonel Mitchell goes so far as to call the scheme "bunk...
...unusually active and stormy career. After only two terms as member of Congress he was nominated in the 1896 Democratic Convention for President. Like the late Theodore Roosvelt, Mr. Bryan raised a regiment of volunteers to serve in the Spanish War, and took the part of colonel. After being twice again nominated by his party he threw all his influence to Woodrow Wilson in the 1912 convention, securing the nomination of the latter over "Champ" Clark. As a reward for this service the "Great Commoner" was given the post of Secretary of State in Wilson's cabinet where he served...
...Then I was offered strong support as a candidate for Governor of New York in opposition to Mr. Whitman [in 1912]. I pondered the matter and then called upon Colonel Roosevelt, of whom I was a close friend. He expressed the fear that I could not beat Whitman because the organization was back of him, and he told me he thought he would be elected President of the United States and said to me: 'I shall want you to be my Secretary of State...
From Mongolia, assistants of Colonel Kozloff, Russian explorer, telegraphed their chief that tumuli (mounds) he had been investigating in the birch and pine forests of the Kentei Mountains, near Urga, had yielded wooden engravings and water color pictures. Explorer Kozloff had already found there figured carpets, silken fabrics, 700 books written in seven languages including Hindu and Chinese, bloodstained women's pigtails that suggested scalping. Earthenware established 200 B. C. as the probable date of the civilization to which tombs made of squared and planed logs, found at depths of 24 to 42 ft. underground, belonged...