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Rearranged Removal (Posted on 2012-07-03) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Remove one letter and rearrange the remaining letters to find the name of a famous philosopher in each of the following:
  1. Surrenders ballot
  2. Alter bad spree
  3. Discard queer jam
  4. Minuteman walk
  5. Smartened pi
  6. Refurnished lot
  7. Sparkled jars
  8. Curliest hat
  9. Huge custom tea
  10. Smooth base hub
  11. Hundred sum sale
  12. Ice corp
  13. Score stat
  14. 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

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  Subject Author Date
It's the pits...two more remainDej Mar2012-07-04 10:36:54
A few more cherries...(partial spoiler)Dej Mar2012-07-03 14:23:16
Cherry-picking (partial spoiler)Steve Herman2012-07-03 08:58:41
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