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Cadzao Posted 19 years ago
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did more than rank ought to have to do for a man

0In "The Other Margaret," Lionel Trilling wrote:02br
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0 The young man drew more benefit from his position as an officer than any position in the Army should provide. 0-

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  • 0 The young man drew more benefit from his position as an officer than any position in the Army should provide.
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0 The young man drew more benefit from his position as an officer than any position in the Army should provide. 0-
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1b00rank•02b00 01b00noun02b00 01b00102b00 a position within a fixed hierarchy, especially that of the armed forces. 02br
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00You know armed forces have different ranks.Some countries use stars while some of them use spears...Here gold bar is an armorrial bearing.Gold here means this bearring is yellow(mayb
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0 The young man's position in the hierarchy of the army may have benefited him more than such a position should be required to benefit any man.02br
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00 Odd turn of phrase, I must say.02br
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0It IS odd. 02br
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00It doesn't seem to say that he should not have gotten as much from his rank as he did, but that he should not have needed the rank to get that respect/advantage/whatever.02br
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00I wonder if the person, for some reason, didn't have much authority as a person in general outside of the Army, and the Army provided it to him. Perhaps
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