Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conduct "to the prejudice of good order and military discipline," went to the President's desk for review. The paragraph that the presidential eyes came especially to rest upon was the one that read: "Upon secret written ballot the Court sentences the accused to be suspended from rank, command and duty, with forfeiture of all pay and allowances, for five years" (Time, Dec. 28). Col. Mitchell's adherents had been hoping that the President would delete that "five" and write "two" or perhaps "three." They had maintained that "forfeiture of all pay" established a dangerous precedent. For though...
...college graduate with his broader, deeper intellectual training will always be a more necessary leaven in business life. But for the rank and file of "successful" men, minor executives and even major, the value of modern college education as business training remains unproved...
...middle of the year, giving as a reason therefore that a song acceptable to all the other clubs is not good enough for Harvard is certainly not cricket. Further, to characterize as "mush" a composition by Horatio Parker, whose ideals and achievements in music placed him in the front rank of American composers, is a bit of ill-considered and discourteously expressed criticism that will displease many musicians and be especially resented at Yale, where, as Dean of the Music School, Professor Parker won the affection and reverence of countless students...
...Some 40 additional persons, many of high rank, were jailed or "unobtrusively guarded in their homes, to avoid scandal." One suspect, Deputy Franz Ulain, safe at Milan, foamed: "These counterfeiters are noble and venerable patriots. . . . I demand that Premier Count Bethlen be swept out of office for daring to arrest Hungarian heroes. . . . I demand that public admission be made of the fact that Hungary is still actually at war with France, and that the counterfeiting was a legitimate and laudable act of war. . . . The profits from the sale of the counterfeit money were being used solely to equip a Fascist...
...fortnight's trial with the Times lengthened into 30 years. Almost at once he leaped into the first rank of correspondents by his incredible power of wheedling secrets out of whoever happened to know them. If only the gods knew, it seemed as if they whispered to De Blowitz. As a tribute to his genius, the Times placed at his disposal the first exclusive cable wire ever leased by a newspaper. To this day the "beats" which he scored are unrivaled...