Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a bill to give Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd the rank of a Rear Admiral, U. S. N., retired...
Promoted. Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, polar explorer; to the rank of Rear Admiral, U. S. N., retired; by act of Congress...
Vengeance for bolting the Democratic Party in the last presidential election fell on Senator James Thomas Heflin of Alabama last week when the State Democratic Executive Committee read him out of the party (27-21). The 120,000 rank-and-file Alabama Democrats who voted for Hoover were not drummed out of camp, only warned that a vote in the primaries would be a promise of party regularity. Leader Heflin paid the penalty to which leadership is liable...
...South 2 Fawali 1 Unclassified 2 Rank List Group I 2 Group II 6 Group III 16 Group IV 23 Group V 24 Group VI 8 Unclassified 9 Fields of Concentration History 14 Economics 11 English 11 Classics 9 Fine Arts 9 Romance Languages 6 Government 4 German 3 History and Literature 3 Philosophy 3 Biochemistry 2 Biology 2 Chemistry 2 Geology and Geography 2 Mathematics 2 Physics 2 Unclassified 4 DUNSTER HOUSE Schools No. of Men Exeter and Andover 15 Other New England Private Schools 36 Other Private Schools 5 Public Schools 23 Geography (Approximate) New England 34 Middle...
...Rank still counts: this particular camp, in which only officers are allowed, is ruled by the ranking officer with the severe discipline, the stiff etiquette, of the regular army. To pass the time the prisoners write novels, play soundless music on a plank painted like the keyboard of a piano, compose invisible petitions on imaginary typewriters. Amateur theatricals turn the whole camp into a burrow of homosexuality. When the Russian Revolution and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk come, the prisoners plan an escape en masse, nearly run into a massacre, are thankful to get back to their safe prison again...