Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Riley, who was a student in the Harvard Law School in 1900-01, is a lawyer in Portland, Oregon, and has become well known throughout the country as one of the foremost authorities on our National Parks. He is as well a poet and musician of distinction...
...Despard Goff, meantime, did not rise beyond a district attorney's office until the Harding regime, when he became Harry Micajah Daugherty's Assistant Attorney General. He only reached the U. S. Senate in 1925. By that time John William Davis, his younger fellow-townsman, was foremost Democrat in the land. Guy Despard Goff, as it happens, is a Republican, so no real rivalry exists. But if Guy Despard Goff had stayed in Clarksburg, he too might have been a Democrat, perhaps head Democrat...
...scandals, Senator Walsh was brought around to the prohibition question in the course of the interview. "While the law has been notoriously violated in a good many sections of the country and ineffectively enforced," he remarked, "I am still convinced that it has been of inestimable value. Moreover," the foremost dry advocate in the Democratic ranks stated, "It may be of interest to you to know that there is no appreciable sentiment in Congress that promises any recession whatever from the policy of the Eighteenth Amendment...
...course of which the acme of scientific endeavor was attained. Furthermore, it has inflicted such a blow upon the University as renders more eulogy superfluous. For Professor Richards had not only earned for himself a niche in the University temple of Fame, but was generally recognized as the foremost authority in the world in the field of atomic weights...
...electrifying Porto Rico's wilderness, then Cuba's, Mexico's, Chile's. These were telephone operations, at first, but soon branched into telegraph, cable and wireless communications. The Caribbean master-communicator got the house of Morgan behind him and has lately be come the foremost U. S. promoter, inter nationally, of a foremost U. S. art (the fast message...