Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...term of enlistment in the Naval Reserve is for four years, and during that time the reservist is subject to immediate call in time of war or case of emergency. In order to be confirmed in the rank or rating given at the time of enrolment, three months' active duty is required. For others, this active duty is not required, but it is necessary for those who wish to render useful service...
...have to be satisfied with temporary obscurity. What if the commissary officer should see Professor Frankfurter mentioned in the Law School notices, even though he knows that no one reads them? No longer will the glorious tales of athletic victories take place etymologically on Soldiers Field. Nor can the rank list be published...
Such a stand generally evokes the charge of a rank utilitarianism which requires us to cut ourselves off from the past and confine our efforts to the narrow limits of material advantage. But here the critics are unfair. One of the cardinal requisites of the useful man is an intimate knowledge of the past. He must have in mind an historical background in order to distinguish real progress from false and estimate the value of modern movements. Without this alert consciousness of the historical evolution of morals and customs, society would resemble the man who has lost his memory...
...play concerns a woman of noble rank who is jilted by her lover, the Duo de Bligny, and in a reaction of shame and anger becomes engaged to a virtuous and prosperous Ironmaster who is ardently in love with her. The rest of the play, to quote the words of the program, is taken up with the wife's "gradual realization of her husband's many good qualities." There is, of course, an inevitable heavy father, not to mention a mother, a Marquise of correspondingly ponderable emotions. More witty by play is furnished by a pair of comic married lovers...
...Officers and enlisted men will render the prescribed salutes in a military manner the officer junior in rank or the enlisted man saluting first. When several officers in company are saluted, all entitled to the salute shall return...