Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...held rank as brevet major for four months and two days during the summer...
Marse Robert's Rank...
...TIME, June 9, footnote p. 28: ... At the time of the capture of John Brown at Harper's Ferry in 1859, Robert E. Lee had been addressed by the Army as "Colonel Lee" for over eleven years, having received that rank by brevet for his services at the storming of Chapultepec...
Although connoisseurs of fine motion pictures are going pale at the spectacle of J. Arthur Rank selling his artistic virtue to Hollywood's questionable standards, they may gain some encouragement from seeing our better producers learning a few things from those English. Except for the lack of a leading actress who is not a nonentity, "The Ghest and Mrs. Muir" might very well be one of the better imports seen around the Exeter Theater, and it is just possible that the American public will take this rare nectar willingly. Rex Harrison could easily be addressing the producer of the picture...
...Dear Young Friend." Read spent 4½ bloody, boring years in the infantry, rising to a captain's rank. He and his friends returned to civil life with high hopes-only to find that "we left the war as we entered it: dazed, indifferent, incapable of any creative action. We had acquired only one new quality: exhaustion...