Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reputation. Mr. Muir bore this in mind when he wrote this little volume on the world after the war of 1914, and he takes the precaution to temper his political prescience with such phrases as "Time alone can reveal the results," or "Whatever the outcome, it will rank among the great events of human history...
...often fantastic, especially in the fictitious speeches which partake of the unrealities of movie melodrama, Mr. Robinson uses for the most part a straightforward narrative which brings out the more exciting aspects of the conquest. He shows Cortez to have been not only a soldier of the first rank in his ability to handle men and in his ingenuity in military tactics, but also an able administrator who knew well how to direct the fruits of his conquest along lines of permanence by fostering settlement and agriculture. The figure of Dona Marina, the beautiful Indian interpretress who shared...
...cabinet rank had yet resigned to join his New Party; but from the cabinet there did resign last week his friend Sir Charles Trevelyan, president of the board of education...
...Professor Greenough's courses in the history of the novel have adequate material to work with. Another considerable sum was devoted to building up the works of Fielding; and further sums were spent on editions of Byron, making the Library's collection of that writer really in the first rank. A few English plays of the seventeenth century have been bought to help round out the White collection. Various single and rare volumes, picked up from time to time, render more complete the collections of certain authors that are already exceptionally well represented in the Library,--for example,--Donne (including...
...earnestly hoped that all of the old Friends will renew their subscriptions and that many new Friends will join the ranks. There are no formalities or restrictions as to membership. Graduates or non-graduates, women or men, are all welcome to join. Subscriptions have ranged from $5 to $1,000, and all gifts are gratefully received. They all help the Harvard, Library to keep its rank as the largest university library in the world...