Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred and fifteen Quarto editions of the works of Shapespeare constitute the bulk of one of the most valuable of recent gifts to Widener Library, made on Saturday. This collection, which will place the Harvard stock of Shakespeariana among the foremost in the country, comes from the library of the late William Augustus White '63, of Brooklyn, New York, as the gift of his family...
...organization which I have built in these 27 years is today the foremost in the world, and is the largest in the world devoted exclusively to the study of the full figure and to the service of stout women...
...suggestion made by W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, called for radical changes in the architecture of the present Stadium, including the removal of the colonnade and the elevation of the Stadium itself in the form of a crescent. This plan met with numerous objections, one of the foremost of which was the status of the Stadium as a gift of alumni, to which the first contribution was made by the Class...
...victory of the Harvard scholastic team is due first and foremost to the excellence of its members. The achievement must be considered a great tribute to the tutors and to the Harvard divisional examination system. The outcome was ideal--a definite victory, yet not one-sided...
...Foremost among the twelve loomed Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, still spruce at 67, who realized in 1917 the dream of Medieval Crusaders by capturing the Holy City of Jerusalem from Infidels who are still Infidels. Likewise among the twelve is Admiral Earl Jellicoe, trim and hearty at 68, who commanded the British Grand Fleet in the victorious though costly action at Jutland (1916) after which Ger mans did not again dispute the seas with Britons. The remaining Knights inducted, last week, were: General Sir Josceline Heneage Wodehouse, General Sir John Maxwell, Lieutenant General Sir Alfred Keogh, Admiral Sir Henry Bradwordine...