Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author's Club as Mr. Cyril D. H. G. Dillington-Dowse who wrote you a letter of such foul criticism on the club stationery (TIME, June 13). My blood still boils when I remember his sneering reference to "The Yanks, a nation ... by no means of the first rank, who . . . found themselves in 1914-18 too proud to fight...
Congress has already passed legislation approving in principle the payment of each reserve officer at a yearly rate equivalent to one-twelfth of what would be his yearly salary in the naval rank which he has been certified as fit to hold in time of war. Thus a merchant officer who would be made a Lieutenant Commander in war-time will receive $250 per year during his whole reservist period, and, in addition, regulation pay during periods devoted exclusively to "training duty...
...Dreyfus Case was that Major Esterhazy and Colonel Henry had made a business of supplying Germany with military information; that advantage of the Anti-Semetic feeling had been taken to victimize Alfred Dreyfus for their wrongdoing. Captain Dreyfus was restored to the active list of the army with rank of Major and was created a knight of the Legion of Honor. So ended a case which had resulted in the discrediting of French militarism and contributed largely to the disestablishment of the French Church...
They laid Mr. Welsh out at an undertaking parlor in his U. S. Army uniform, captain's rank. Actors, ball players, politicians and 1,500 miscellaneous came to see him. Soldiers escorted him to a crematorium. Among his pallbearers were Benny Leonard, Johnny Dundee, Middleweight Champion Mickey Walker, Light Heavyweight Champion Mike McTigue. Jack Dempsey, against whom Mrs. Welsh had railed, saying Mr. Welsh had once defended him against "slacker" charges only to be ignored last week when he asked Mr. Dempsey to pay a sickroom call, telegraphed flowers from California...
...Significance of Robinson Jeffers as a poet is, by critical consensus, that of one to rank with the greatest poets of all generations. Homer and Sophocles have not been held too lofty comparisons for him?yet he remains distinctly a product of this continent. Inhuman in his intensity?he says "Humanity is needless"; calls men "the apes that walk like herons"?he repels people who seek comfort in poetry. He takes the race as a starting