Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...debt question, which is even more an economic subject than a legal one, but very much to do with fear and dislike of England. When an author can confidently anticipate the verdict of history in conferring upon four such dissimilar figrues as Hearst, Reed, Borah, and Coolidge, the rank of "statesmen," one may well pause to consider the weight of his judgment upon nations...
...restricted by the unusually heavy work assigned them, but this fact is in itself a reason for making the few opportunities that exist as pleasant as possible. Princeton sends a large number of its men to the graduate departments of Harvard each year: in the Law School its graduates rank in number second only to those of Harvard itself. I cannot see that the last number of the Lampoon will have any visible effects on the friendship existing between Harvard and Princeton graduate students, but it does seem a dubious method of encouraging it. We in the Law School have...
...further feeling among certain Harvard men that Princeton places chief emphasis upon uniformity of type and manner of dress, that she places a low rank upon things of the mind, that her outlook is immature and provincial, that membership in the Big Three is Princeton's chief claim to glory...
...organizer and kleagle in the Klan under D. C. Stephenson. I carried the imperial passport, under which a man can belong to the Klan without it being known to the rank and file. ... I wrote to D. C. Stephenson regarding a position in the Department of Justice. He wrote to me to go to Washington and there interview Senator Watson. He said his letter would be a sufficient introduction. I went to the capitol and met Watson in his office...
...Admiral stood for a whole day unscathed on the bridge of his flagship, while half the officers who stood with him were hit by fragments of shells. . . . Forced to display a valor equally prodigious, his captains did not fail him. . . . Port Arthur fell.* Colossal Russia reeled. Minute Japan took rank among the mighty. From that day began in earnest the struggle for sea power which placed Japan at the Washington Conference (1921) on a 3 5-5† basis ± with the U. S. and Britain (see p. 11). Last week the Japanese Minister of Marine, Admiral Takeshi Takarabe, launched...