Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Knowledge that three out of four people in the U. S. do not use tooth brushes vexed dentists who, although they were attending the 64th annual meeting of the Chicago Dental Society last week, represented the profession throughout the country. The Chicago society has taken national rank next to only the American Dental Association (which meets in Minneapolis next August...
...statement of President Lowell that the degree of Master of Arts is becoming an excrescence in modern education will be as gratifying to students in the upper rank groups, as it is a valuable suggestion for advantageous segregation. For the observation is based on the fact that men graduating with honors from Harvard are now prepared to assume the responsibilities of individual productive research that signalizes the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, without intermediate preparation. The master's degree must continue to exist as a haven for the ambitious but unprepared, and to satisfy the requirements for teaching positions...
...informed opinion . . . that Herbert Hoover among Republicans everywhere is the preference of the rank and file. It is and will be our purpose to expose the selfish character of certain favorite-son and other insincere movements calculated to defeat the will of the people...
Against the culprits appeared, last week, bristling, the Attorney General, Sir Douglas Hogg. Jurymen and spectators craned forward to catch his words, for he ranks in private life with that great barrister,* Sir John Simon, as one of the few legal fencers in England whose swordplay is worth ?20,000 a year-pittance though that would be to a first rank U. S. attorney. Last week Sir Douglas Hogg adduced the testimony of faithful George Monkland and other witnesses with irrefutable force, then cried to the jury...