Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...circulation of 1,500,000. He owns the Topeka Daily Capital, on which he began as a typesetter, besides another daily in Kansas City, a political weekly with a circulation of 600,000, and a "home" monthly with 1,250,000 circulation. In fact, he stands in the front rank as a successful publisher. How comes it that he is leader of the farm bloc...
...Dean's List men, originally crested to include the first two groups on the Rank List, were first given the privilege of attending classes and lectures at their own discretion. This included the right to cuts both before and after vacations. Later the Dean List was enlarged to include group three of the Rank List. This was a larger step in the extension of freedom, as the third group has consistently included many more than the number of students ranked in the first two classes. Subsequently the opportunity for Freshmen to gain Dean's List privileges was granted and first...
...Prince Carol of Roumania is stopping at a hotel in Venice, Milan and Lucerne, with a mysterious lady who is really Zyzis and Princess Helen, unless she is a Roumanian-Italian-Polish-Jewess of high rank whom he met while attending Queen Alexandra's funeral. He is concealing his presence in London rather cleverly, and had tea in secret with his sister, the Princess Ileana, who is at school near Ascot. He and his dissolute brother, Prince Nicholas, celebrated his renunciation by staging a wild party at Mitchell's, atop Montmartre, Paris (see CELEBRITIES DINE). Later he and the mysterious...
...ordinary examination glorifies memory, an intellectual quality of secondary rank. In the final examination period the salient fact stands out that a superficial knowledge embracing many facts which one cannot hope to retain is more profitable than a modest and a sounder one. When the examination impends there is no longer time to think, only to memorize. That examinations test memory rather than mental power is the most cogent criticism against them...
...reserve, the Tigers have Pitman, P. Hughes, and Means, who have been playing either as wings or at the pivet position. Pitman and DeLamater rank almost on a par and the former was in the opening lineup in Princeton's last game. DeLamater, who gained fame two years ago by defeating an excertionally strong Eli Freshman team almost single handed, is the taste and will probably be first choice tonight...