Word: forefront
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before any of his guests could wink a confident eye, Ike expressed some doubts that lay heavily on his mind. He is a man, the President said, who likes to see younger men brought to the forefront and given an opportunity in the top jobs, so that their vitality and ideas can be employed in solving the nation's problems. Then there was another consideration. No President in history, Ike said, had reached his 70th birthday in the White House. The presidency was a grueling job, he said; it worked a certain physical erosion...
...hint of their meanings by the titles. Said Director James Byrnes of the Fine Arts Center: "Nonobjective painting is not confined to any one place. It has permeated to the grass roots. Regionalism is essentially dead, and representational painting has almost been submerged. U.S. nonobjective artists are in the forefront of world painting...
...disturbed by the decline in the number of its science majors (down from 14.2% in 1940 to 10.3% in 1952, as compared with around 25% on comparable campuses), the AEC decision will provide a long-awaited shot in the arm: the great machine will undoubtedly place Yale "in the forefront of nuclear research in the nation...
Though school and hospital cooperated in some degree down the years, they muffed the chance to get into the forefront of medical progress by joining forces when other medical centers began to be set up (e.g., Manhattan's pace-making Columbia-Presbyterian). Yale Graduate Harvey Gushing, later one of the world's most famed neurosurgeons, refused an appointment from his alma mater in 1906 because he thought the school was in the doldrums and would not get out until it teamed up with the hospital...
Pittsburgh Sir: Your choice was a logical one. Only a man with such driving spirit and high ideals could have lifted a nation from the doldrums of depression and put it in the forefront of a struggling world-truly a great...