Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...useful person to shrewd publishers is a book-censor. Sure as death & taxes, a guilty volume will be publicized, will sell widely thereafter, openly or 'legged. Such success would be repugnant to Publishers Farrar & Rinehart, who by purchasing Cosmopolitan Book Corp. last month jumped into the first rank of their trade (TIME, Oct. 5). Under their imprint appears little bawdry. Nevertheless, upon one of their books last fortnight was visited censorship. Last week the book began to sell rapidly. Entitled Peggy and Peter: What They Did Today ($2.50), it is a picture book for children, representing the activities...
...some of the "townies" who watch Army's home games from trees overlooking Michie Stadium, climbed down and went home. In the second period, Harvard's facile Barry Wood began to throw the passes for which he is more famed than his equally expert tennis, his scholastic rank (top of his class). Crickard caught one of them for a touchdown, White caught another for another touchdown. After the first, Wood fumbled the pass from centre but picked the ball up and tore around left end, instead of kicking, for the extra point. That point eventually won the game...
Today's utilitarian temper, like a wood, rank or otherwise, is wedging its way between the mossy old stones of scholastic tradition. And the Harvard Houses, in their frantic game of leap-frog with Oxford and Cambridge, may yet wake up to find themselves more English than modern England itself...
...book), Erich Maria Remarque, Anita Loos, Fannie Hurst, Ruth Suckow, Vicki Baum, Colette, Rex Beach, besides such old Hearst standbys as Peter B. Kyne. Harry Leon Wilson, the late James Oliver Curwood. By taking over Cosmopolitan's contracts, Farrar & Rinehart stepped overnight from second rank to very first. Publisher Farrar was pleased, and well he might be, to be at 36 head of such an affair. For while his favorite author may be Marlowe, no man minds having his life turn into a Horatio Alger tale. Johnny Farrar was a poor boy from Vermont. When he went to Yale...
...recommendation of Dean Pound, and approved by the Corporation, the Faculty of the Law School has appointed 15 men who rank high to the Bard of Student Advisors, which supervises the work of the first year men in the Law Clubs and assists them in their cases and briefs...