Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Iowa (6-1-1)-yielded its top rank with a letdown after clinching the Rose Bowl bid, lost to aroused Ohio State...
...world of Society, whose population is found largely on the pages of East Coast Social Registers and whose habitat lies far beyond the borders of Cambridge 38. Here Harvard is often equated with the Clubs, and a father tends to measure his son's college success not by the rank of his degree, but by the prominence of the Club he makes...
...white on blue tiles. ¶ Thirty 7½-ft.-high bas-reliefs from the frieze of the Pergamon Altar, a vast Hellenistic masterpiece commissioned by King Eumenes II in Asia Minor about 180 B.C. ¶ A roomful of Botticelli drawings illustrating the Divine Comedy. ¶ Hundreds of top-rank Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Roman and Chinese statues and ceramics. ¶ Cranach's Judith and Holofernes, Bosch's small Temptation of St. Anthony, Hals's Mulatto...
...Republic contracted the most visible case of split personality. Critic Conrad Brenner extolled the book for four pages, ended: "Vladimir Nabokov is an artist of the first rank, a writer in the great tradition . . . Lolita is probably the best fiction to come out of this country . . . since Faulkner's burst in the '30s. [Nabokov] may be the most important writer now going in this country." But later, the New Republic used a lead editorial to call Lolita an "obscene chronicle of murder and a child's destruction," somberly explained "what obliges us to differ with...
...defense, the Crimson and the Bruins rank second and third in the league, and the varsity's strong line probably gives it an edge in this department...