Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These last years of Paul Claudel have been a little baffling to the Japanese. Here was a hard, shrewd statesman of the first rank who would draw a shapeless caricature for his dinner partner and remark with emphatic sincerity: "Madame, I would give my whole position and perhaps half my talent could I learn to draw or sculp...
...field in the student's choice of his free electives. The best safeguard against this danger lies in having as tutors men who are of sufficiently broad views and interests to prevent undue specialization: but action by the Faculty last year preventing a man below Group IV of the Rank List from becoming, except in an unusual case, a candidate for distinction was a step towards this end. This rule which did not come into effect until this fall, serves to emphasize in the mind of students and of tutors the fact that a man who cannot do work...
...Robert H. McElroy and Edward J. Bullock, both of whom had served the Standard Oil long and faithfully, were lifted to the rank of vice president...
...full Cabinet roster runs to 21 ministers, with six more in a secondary category and not ordinarily present at the Cabinet table-an example, the Solicitor General for Scotland, A. M. MacRobert. Two peers hold high but chiefly honorary Cabinet rank: the Earl of Balfour (Premier 1902-05), and the Marquess of Salisbury-these respectively Lord President of the Council, and Leader of the House of Lords...
...last week the cadets of Urban Military Academy (Hollywood), rose as usual from dinner, began to march out. Jackie Coogan, 12, cinema boy, now a cadet, seized a pepper pot, threw pepper at one Brin of Bjorkman. For this, he was demoted from rank of corporal to private...