Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Watson '27 of Yale will captain the invading team, composed of the three top-rank players from each University. In order to choose these men, a series of test matches will be played during the spring, and the play in the matches will also be considered. An innovation this year is the eligibility of Freshmen for positions on the team. Reports from Yale announce that there are several 1930 players who are pressing the regulars to maintain their ranking...
...delegation of civic patriots from Caltagirone, Sicily, sought the dark, high-ceilinged office of Signor Mussolini in the Palazzo Chigi last week and humbly petitioned that he would deign to raise their region to the rank of a province...
Heavenly King.** Immediately after Yoshihito Tenno's death his eldest son Hirohito (since 1921 Prince Regent on account of his father's invalidism) assumed imperial rank in a room adjoining the death chamber. He will not be crowned until 1928, since the period of mourning in the Imperial Household will be protracted one year after the Tenno's death. None the less Hirohito Tenno received last week the Privy Seal and various imitations of the sacred symbols of his office?the sword, the mirror and the beads?the originals of these treasures reposing in various shrines throughout Japan...
Finally the 25-year-old Son of Heaven, his visage grief-stricken, repeated, as he assumed his rank a traditional formula...
...bank clerk who is studying law, doggedly dissented. For most of 19 hours they argued. "You can't tell me old man Doheny is a crook," said one juror. "Didn't these Navy men [onetime Secretary Denby and Captain John K. Robison, who lost the rank of Rear Admiral because of his connection with the oil scandals] go and ask him to bid on the contracts...