Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defeat of the "invincible Crimson machine". But sober second thought has always led to the conclusion that there was only one real explanation--Princeton's superiority. Since the war and especially in the last two years the teams that have worn the Orange and Black have deserved to rank among the best in the country. They have proved their quality--their strength and their fighting spirit--from the Chicago Stadium to Soldiers Field...
...weeks ago the Chinese Government told the foreign Diplomatic Corps at Peking that the Military Governor of Shantung had been dismissed; last week President Tsao-Kun promoted the dismissed man to a higher military rank and to membership in the honorary body of retired officers. This made the Diplomats angry, as Tien Chung-Yu, ex- Military Governor of Shantung, was held by them to be personally responsible for the bandit outrage which occurred near Tsinan last May. Obviously his promotion to a higher rank was a flagrant violation of the spirit contained in the last Chinese note to the Diplomats...
Captain Ezio Garibaldi, grandson of the patriot, received the rank of Minister Plenipotentiary and was sent on a special mission to Mexico. The object of his mission is to seek an economic accord with Mexico, where Italy can obtain a large part of the raw materials necessary to her industries...
...Playwright Owen Davis is an artist; yet they cannot deny his versatility. Last year he won the Pulitzer Prize with his gloomy, bitter Icebound. He has now delivered himself of the most supremely silly, the most thunderously amusing of farces. Otto Kruger, the hero, steps immediately into the front rank of our funniest farceurs...
...people in the moving picture business as "foolhardy." He declared that his object in offering this prize to college students had been to "interest the coming generation of writers and thinkers, the young men and women who stand on the doorstep of life's opportunity, the class of the rank and file of intelligence who can lift moving pictures, if they are so minded, from the mediocrity with which they are threatened to the heights which they ought to occupy and to which they have every logical reason to aspire...