Word: warrantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the R. A. F. upgrading reached the enlisted ranks. Prouder than any air marshal were the sergeant majors, highest ranking non-commissioned officers, heretofore "one step removed from a gentleman." Henceforth the sergeant major is a warrant officer, to be "addressed by airmen as 'sir' and to be referred to as 'mister...
...including "a number of items the genuineness of which is doubtful." Thus in the booming 20's Ivar Kreuger could earn but 1½% on his capital. "Neither these earnings nor any other facts . . . lend any support to the view that Kreuger possessed ability so extraordinary as to warrant the grant to him of the freedom from control or disclosure of his actions which he enjoyed...
...While the House have not been in existence long enough to warrant final conclusions as to their results, the fact cannot be disputed that they have already done more than a little toward providing improved social and physical conditions as well as a more suitable environment in which the upper classmen may carry on their intellectual life. Although not the only cause, there is little doubt that the Houses did much to contribute toward the marked improvement in scholarship throughout the three upper classes which has already been commented...
...some time there has been agitation by members of the German department for the showing of German talking and silent movies at the Geography Building. So far not enough interest has been shown by members of the division or outside interests to warrant investigation of the matter...
Annoyed by this blunt suggestion that he is persona non grata even to Spanish Royalists in Paris, large-lipped Alfonso XIII dismissed them curtly, snapped. "There has been no development in the politics of my beloved Spain which would warrant such action...