Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Semitic Museum has come the archaeological and inscriptional material. The inscribed clay tablets, some two thousand in number, rank first in importance. It is understood that we shall return a portion of these to the Museum at Bagdad, after publication of the inscriptions in this country. From some hundreds found in one of the rooms excavated, Professor Chiera, while still at Nuzi, selected 107 and copied them on 100 plates. These will appear at an early date as a volume of the "Harvard Semitic Series...
...Dead a hundred years, he remains in his peculiarly exhilarating and lovely way the greatest of them all. No composer of the first rank has failed to surpass him in this way or that, but he stands above all of them as a contriver of sheer beauty, as a maker of music in the purest sense. There is no more smell of the lamp in his work than there is in the lyrics of Shakespeare. It is infinitely artless and spontaneous. But in its artlessness there is no sign of that intellectual poverty which so often shows itself, for example...
...oilman and a judge. His home is at Casper, near famed Teapot Dome and Salt Creek. He is a Shriner. But Senators like Borah and Johnson have taught Washington to view with some circumspection any statesman from the great open spaces who has risen to Senatorial rank...
Supreme above every other man or woman in lineage, rank and sanctity combined is the Emperor of Japan, upon whose splendrous Enthronement world interests focused last week...
...rank is concerned there is only one other reigning emperor worthy of the name, George V. He is Emperor only of India and King of the rest of his Realm. The Japanese Reigning House is purely Imperial, with no inferior title of Royalty...