Word: warrantable
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...Athletic Committee is not definitely pledging to award the letter until skiing has developed sufficiently to show that the interest will be such as to warrant such an action. This move, however, is definitely favorable to the skiiers, who are planning intercollegiate competition of a calibre which is expected to merit the minor...
...Warrant Corps Sirs...
...commissioned and warrant officers and the warrant corps of the U. S. Navy feel that TIME, of all publications, should be correctly informed on this score, so that in future full credit may be given an officer of this Corps as regards his rank and status. We deeply regret the loss of our beloved shipmate and therefore feel that in fairness to his memory, he be placed in some definite category instead of that of neither officer nor enlisted...
...commissioned officer receives his commission from the President, ratified by the Senate. A warrant officer receives his warrant from the President without such advice and consent. After serving as warrant officers for six years, boatswains, gunners, carpenters, and machinists may be commissioned chief boatswain, chief gunner, etc., etc. to rank with, but after, an ensign. The term commissioned officers does not, however, usually include chief warrant officers. Chief Pay Clerk Troy was a commissioned officer of the warrant corps...
...warrant corps has 1,454 men, consisting of boatswains, gunners, electricians, machinists, carpenters, sailmakers, pharmacists, pay clerks, acting pay clerks with their commissioned chiefs. Warrant officers wear officers' uniforms but have their own mess...