Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ogden Haggerty Hammond has risen from small Hoboken real estate dealings to the position of a real estate tycoon and the rank of U. S. Ambassador to Spain. His first wife was of the most aristocratic section of Hoboken, famed Castle Point. The present Mrs. Ogden Haggerty Hammond of New York City and Ambassador Hammond tendered their luncheon to Royalty, last week, on the eve of returning to the U. S. for a short visit. They leave in charge of the Embassy in Madrid, quietly renowned Counselor Sheldon Whitehouse. He prepared for diplomacy as private secretary to the late Ambassador...
...give latitude to non-Dean's List men when they momentarily reach the mark does not imply a withdrawal of rank from those men who fall below the Third Group in November or April. High standing is too desirable and not to be encouraged by quick reward and too rare to have its perhaps momentary lapse incur a penalty...
...price of tickets has been fixed at $5.00 per couple and $4.00 for stags. The number of tickets for undergraduates is limited to 300, with distribution according to class rank, Seniors and Juniors being given preference...
Despite her insignificance, Paraguay has produced one villain fit to rank with Nero, Caligula and the madder Tsars of Russia. This memorable and awful personage, Francisco Lopez, was the son of the benevolent dictator Carlos Antonio Lopez (1840-62) who erected Paraguay into a prosperous and flourishing state. Upon the death of his father Villain Lopez plunged his fatherland into a series of wars so insane and ruinous that the population of 1,300,000 in 1862 bled itself down in eight years to less than 30,000 able-bodied men and 200,000 women, children, gaffers. Perhaps never before...
...opera, the society and the culture of this gracious city are of first rank. The great University of Montevideo need not yield in scholarship to any other in the Americas. If athletic prowess be insisted on, proud Uruguayans know that they have just won the World's Soccer Championship at the Olympic Games in Amsterdam (TIME...