Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rank of Captain-General is that given to a commander of a military district, of which there are nine In Spain, including one in Morocco...
...lawyer-statesman, now on a speaking tour in the U. S., finds that country very ignorant of Latin American affairs. He told of a letter he had received from the late Theodore Roosevelt: "Even the great Teddy addressed me as 'Senator,' when I've never been anything below the rank of a Cabinet Minister in my life, and, to cap the climax, my letter bore the destination of Buenos Aires, Brazil...
...publication of the Rank List showing the comparative standing of all the undergraduates in the college for the past academic year shows that 38 attained highest honors in the first group as compared to 14 in the previous year and 44 in 1921-22 Freshmen with records of three and a half A's and one and a half B's and upper classmen with at least three and a half A's and half a B are automatically placed in group one. The number of men attaining high distinction or the second group shows a considerable increase over...
...Group 1, 15 of this year's Seniors attaining the necessary grade. Twelve 1925 men, 2 out of course students and 11 of last year's Freshmen also qualified for highest distinction. Two hundred and eight were not promoted and so were not listed in the Rank List, and 123 left college before the end of the year...
...matter much any more-so she doesn't, and he is lynched. The form and style of the book should prove of great interest to students of the most recent literary tendencies. THE MYSTERY ROAD-E. Phillips Oppenheim-Little Brown ($2.00). Monte Carlo-mysterious ladies of the highest rank who refuse to reveal their identities-a little French country girl-waif, sheltered by two young British aristocrats-England -Russia-Bolshevik prisons. ... In other words, Mr. Oppenheim's second book of the current year, displays his usual deft talent for spectacular plot and thrilling incident, though a confirmed Oppenheimer...