Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Berresford, who comes from New York City, is a graduate of the Horace Mann School. This year he is manager of the University baseball team, a member of the Athletic Committee, the Glee Club, and the University Instrumental Clubs, and is in the second group of the Rank List...
...alone its undergraduate sponsoring that removes tonight's presentation of the play "Porgy" from the rank and file of a long series of "Harvard nights." There have been "Harvard nights" at everything from the Pops concerts to "Good Morning, Dearie", and over many, though not all, has hung the thin and unwholesome haze of the box office...
...Earl Cave last week after he had enjoyed his new title for less than a day. Of him the London Times, said with a justice finer than eulogy, "Although he cannot be reckoned among the greatest in the long, brilliant roll of Lord High Chancellors of England, he must rank as a sound lawyer. . . . None excelled him in ... sanity of judgment...
...Douglas Hogg. Someone must always be Lord High Chancellor, but to have chosen a new one fit to rank "among the greatest," last week, would probably have meant returning to the Woolsack the brilliant Earl of Birkenhead, who sat thereon during 1919-22, but is now Secretary of State for India. Patently Lord Birkenhead does not want to impair his chances of perhaps someday becoming Prime Minister by again withdrawing from the hot arena of politics to the lofty precincts of the Lord High Chancellor. Therefore, last week, His Majesty was "advised" by the Baldwin Cabinet to call...
...Majesty, before graciously appointing Sir Douglas as Lord High Chancellor last week, thoughtfully created him a baronet. Thus his title of "Sir" becomes hereditary, and he will rank above knights though below barons...