Word: field
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...original promotion from captain to brigadier general he should study the history of Mindanao, where Pershing as a captain had a general officer's command and where he was repeatedly recommended for promotion to brigadier general by his military superiors distant several thousand miles from any political field...
...could. Secretary of War James William Good last week might have charged out into a grassy field just below New Orleans, waved his Arms wildly, uttered loud noises from his throat. This he might have done to rout a herd of cows complacently grazing over the site of one of the few U.S. victories in the War of 1812. But as decorous conduct is expected of the Secretary of War, and as he was hundreds of miles from New Orleans, Mr. Good had to content himself with drafting a bill and forwarding it to the House Military Affairs Committee providing...
...report guessed guardedly at reasons for these changes: the War had popularized Science and overcrowded the medical profession. The expansion of industry was making Law a greater field. The ranks of the theologians were thin because more young men are seeking "liberal" careers...
...President Lowell, one-time professor of government, exalted a Boston Globe reporter, who wrote: "Pres. Lowell, when he rose to speak, was the recipient of as fine a spontaneously bestowed honor as he is ever likely to receive. Rising to speak before a group of men great in a field of which he has comparatively no knowledge, every one in the house rose with him. This is a custom at all Harvard gatherings, but the percentage of Harvard men in last night's audience was small, as by some magnet attracted, the audience rose to its feet...
Married. Gladys Walton, show girl (Princess Flavia, Lady in Ermine); and Clifford R. Parliman, flyer; in an airplane 5,000 ft. above Roosevelt Field...