Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year's results are also better than those of the 1929 mid-years, when only 16.8 per cent of the undergraduates achieved honor grades. The 605 men, this year are those whose work has been B average or better, and who stand in the first three groups of the rank list...
...more than doubled within ten years. Students of slight means are often forced to spend so much time in earning part of their expenses that they lose the high scholastic standing on which their scholarships depend. What is equally important, even if capable of maintaining their place in the Rank List, these men are deprived, through limitations on their time, of many of the advantages of college life...
...Neil and his huge organization do not represent all the World War veterans. In the 1930 national convention of the American Legion, a motion to participate in the fight with the Disabled American Veterans of the World War and the Veterans of Foreign Wars was tabled without the rank and file having an opportunity to vote on it. But the bass drum player who got on the D. A. V. and V. F. W. bandwagon late, is credited by you as having made possible a larger loan on the Government promissory notes held by all veterans...
...Wolman has conveyed his appreciation of the assistance given by the American Legion and he has also stated that the fight will go on and the next session of Congress will find another bill for the immediate payment of the World War Adjusted Compensation Certificate. May we of the rank and file hope that our sister organization will get into harness with us. Also may we readers of TIME expect the newseditors to include ALL the participants in the next battle...
...there was formed the Boston banking firm of Kidder, Peabody & Co. By the turn of the century it had marched into the foremost rank of private banks. Yet during the last few years sorry things have happened to Kidder, Peabody & Co. In August 1929, William Endicott, who had entered the firm after emerging from Harvard in 1887, resigned. On Jan. 2. 1930, the senior partner, Frank G. Webster, died suddenly at the age of 89. Five days later the mainspring of the firm, Robert Winsor. died. Within a year Wall Street was whispering black news about Kidder, Peabody...