Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bowie, Md. racetrack Vice President John Nance Garner, Senators Nathan Lynn Bachtnan of Tennessee and Sherman Minton of Indiana bet $2 each on Minton, a rank outsider, won $24.90 apiece when Minton came in first...
...government, literature, and other phases of our national development. These lists of recommended books will be distributed to citizens throughout the country. Individual study will be supplemented next winter when a series of lectures on contemporary American problems and their relations to the past will be given by first-rank authorities from Harvard and other American universities. Both undergraduates and the public will be invited to attend these lectures, and later to measure their progress by taking examinations. Book prizes, the gifts of Mrs. Warren, will be awarded to the most successful...
STRIKING the public eye in one of its most rigidly Puritanical periods, the diary of Maric Bashkirtseff created a sensation in Victorian England from Prime Minister Gladstone down to the rank and file of commoners who read it with relish. The diary was so popular that it was almost immediately translated into several languages, and it became synonymous with the appreciation of complete and candid self-revelation...
Lists of concentrators, representing the first five rank groups, have been obtained from the head of every department. From each list about 25 men have been selected and asked to attend a meeting for discussion of their field. The material garnered at these sessions, to be held during April and the first week of May, will then be arranged and published in a series of articles in the CRIMSON during May and in pamphlet form in September...
...English Literature. But John Livingston Lowes displays the most lovable trait of complete indifference to the Harvard catalogue, and he has from time to time announced in his lectures that he cannot remember the names and numbers of the courses in English, despite the fact that he holds the rank of senior professor in the field. He has even promised that someday he will take a day off to find out what are the courses that the department is giving...