Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...choice of Dr. Jose Ortega y Gasset as the Godkin Lecturer for this spring is a fortunate one, in keeping with the high standards of recent years. A political thinker of the first rank, Professor Ortega has contributed heavily to the literature in his field. Most notable of his written works is "The Revolt of the Masses", translated in 1932, a book showing a great grasp of modern social problems and able power to present them...
...used again, to raise funds to reduce the $430,000 Democratic campaign deficit. From coast to coast 1,262 Victory Dinners were held. To every dinner where the price was $5 a plate or more, the Democratic Speakers Bureau dispatched a Senator, a Congressman or other notable Democrat, the rank of the speaker being roughly proportioned to the price of admission...
...test, triumphed overwhelmingly as the Government bill passed without even the formality of a division (nose-counting). This formality Major Attlee could have forced if Labor were sincere in wanting to get on record who is for and who is against Rearmament. Bleated Laborite Ammon of the rank & file: "Those who should hold the confidence of the country are using that confidence to bring on preparations for war-a war which was the very thing they pledged themselves against...
...restrain in any way Harvard's music courses is rank calumny upon Hesiod's nine Muses. If the cultural side of education is to be broadened or even its present width maintained, there must be a legitimate shifting of funds to ressurect the "open door" policy for Music...
There was something in President Roosevelt's tone of voice when he talked on Thursday night about the national problem of the Supreme Court at the Party dinner that frankly got under our skin. For not only was every rank and shade of economic royalist run through the hoops of the circus--master's magnificent invective, but the nine old guinca pigs were asked to perform a lot of experiments that even nine humans couldn't in reason be asked to go through, much less a body of lawyers...