Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South Dakota. Said Mr. Walsh: "I have no campaign plans and no thought of quitting my duties here [in Washington] to promote my candidacy, if such it may be called. If my services to the party have been such as to entitle me to consideration . . . I dare say the rank and file are not ignorant of the fact...
...began almost at once to itch for the sceptre which would otherwise have been his when King Ferdinand of Rumania died (TIME, Aug. 1). The reasons for his abdication may remain forever partially obscure, but it is clear that they originated in his desire to escape the responsibilities of rank and dwell inconspicuously with various ladies. The latest of these, Mme. Magda Lupescu, comely Jewess, was sharing Prince Carol's suite at the Negresco, last week...
...results of the Harvard canvass distributed to the newspapers of the other institutions conducting the polls. The list of these institutions includes all of the large universities of the East, the State universities of the Middle West and Far West, and a number of smaller colleges of recognized rank in educational circles...
Ingenious cross-referencing according to rank revealed that while professors and associate professors put most emphasis on Dependability and Sincerity, Scholarliness was admitted the universal requisite among instructors and assistant professors. Point is lent thereby to the phrase recently used by the Harvard Alumni Bulletin "the stifling influence of graduate scholarship." Confession like this is good for the academic soul...
Nothing could rank higher than the figures of Dean Kent in Honesty. The statistics were gathered in a laudable spirit of investigation. There remains only the standard of Service, upon which only an expert would venture classification...