Word: rank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Class of '69 had the honor of leading the parade, having one grizzled veteran, banner in hand, as a representative. George P. Gardner '10, Chief Marshal, was also in the front rank, taking his position on the rostrum immediately on arrival...
Provincial museums can never hope to compete in the world's art marts for the sort of paintings that Mellons & Morgans like. But they can play another and more exciting game by buying modern pictures which some day may rise to the rank and worth of Old Masters...
...trained for business or engineering. The Turkish upper crust may send its daughters to Istanbul Woman's College for culture but in general it sends its sons to Istanbul's ancient native university, Galata Serai. Bulgarians, on the other hand, who have drawn a Premier, two front-rank diplomats and many another leader from the college's alumni, regard Robert as an immensely aristocratic institution...
With focal infection as his theme the Billings Lecturer must be an eminent clinician, a topnotch diagnostician, a wise interpreter of the symptoms which a patient brings to his examination room. Billings Lecturers in the past have included such front-rank men as Dr. Joseph Leggett Miller, professor of clinical medicine at the University of Chicago, specialist in vaccine therapy and rheumatism; Dr. Lewis Atterbury Conner, Cornell professor of medicine, editor of the American Heart Journal; Dr. James Bryan Herrick of Chicago, specialist in diseases of the heart and blood vessels; the late William Sydney Thayer (1864-1932), 1928 president...
Estimates of the permanent value of Pareto's contribution to human thought range from the extravagant claims of disciples who rank him with Newton and Aristotle to the deprecations of Socialists who consider him a borrower from Marx and Sorel and damn him as the philosopher of Italian Fascism, whose appearance he predicted. Although Mussolini was inspired by Pareto, and made him a Senator, Translator Livingston doubts that Pareto approved of Mussolini or Fascismo, feels that his remarks when Mussolini took power were the expressions of a prophet's "I told you so!'' satisfaction...