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Rearranged Removal (Posted on 2012-07-03)

Remove one letter and rearrange the remaining letters to find the name of a famous philosopher in each of the following:

Surrenders ballot
Alter bad spree
Discard queer jam
Minuteman walk
Smartened pi
Refurnished lot
Sparkled jars
Curliest hat
Huge custom tea
Smooth base hub
Hundred sum sale
Ice corp
Score stat
Stomachy monk

Submitted by K Sengupta

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1. Surrenders ballot - O => Bertrand Russell
2. Alter bad spree - S => Peter Abelard
3. Discard queer jam - C => Jacques Derrida
4. Minuteman walk - W => Immanuel Kant
5. Smartened pi - T => Parmenides
6. Refurnished Lot - H => Rudolf Steiner
7. Sparkled jars - D => Karl Jaspers
8. Curliest hat - T => Heraclitus
9. Huge custom tea - H => Auguste Comte
10. Smooth base hub - U => Thomas Hobbes
11. Hundred sum sale - A => Edmund Husserl
14. Stomachy monk - T => Noam Chomsky
12. Ice corp - P => Cicero
13. Score stat- T => Socrates
14. Stomachy monk - T => Noam Chomsky

Comments: ( You must be logged in to post comments.)

Subject	Author	Date
It's the pits...two more remain	Dej Mar	2012-07-04 10:36:54
A few more cherries...(partial spoiler)	Dej Mar	2012-07-03 14:23:16
Cherry-picking (partial spoiler)	Steve Herman	2012-07-03 08:58:41

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