Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Loveman is Associate Editor of The Saturday Review of Literature, widely considered the foremost of its kind in the U. S. More than 20,000 constant readers depend on it to guide their tastes in books. Miss Loveman makes no speeches, marches in no parades, is seldom mentioned on the radio. She gets out The Saturday Review. Accurate, tireless, tactful, intelligent she is a serene, important, almost indispensable character in the book of literary life. In honor of good deeds done quietly she was given the first copy of Claire Ambler. Her book was autographed by F. N. Doubleday, George...
...Butler is right in his contention that the best teacher is the scholar of widest knowledge and appreciation, but it is disconcerting to have the president of a university which stands foremost in graduate enrollment so deprecate specialization. For he based his plea for endowments upon the great service to complex civilization that university trained men are doing. And certainly it is not the dilettante, however interesting he may be, who is making possible the refinement of living, but the specialist impervious to every other interest who burrows until he unearth his treasure. His importance to society, his conception...
...people? War is always unthinkable-until it happens. Then propaganda is organized; patriotism is preached; popular apathy and aversion give way to the fife and drum; war is suddenly a noble venture. But take the United States and Great Britain, for example. Isn't war between these two foremost powers an impossibility? Again, war is always an impossibility-until it happens. In the case of Great Britain and the United States war might arise from this circumstance. Or that circumstance. Strife between France and the German Republic might be occasioned by another circumstance. Japan and Great Britain might become...
...Joffe was one of Soviet Russia's foremost diplomats and represented his country in many lands, the most notable, perhaps, being China, where he was able to prepare the way for Bolshevist influence in the civil war still raging...
College debating, which has undergone a considerable renascence at Harvard during the last two years, comes in for a round rating in an article in "The Educational Review" by Doctor Vernon L. Mangun, assistant professor at the University of New Hampshire, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, which have been the foremost exponents of the new manly art of self defense, are cited as the outstanding culprits of a system that has saddled an incubus on the high schools. Whereas formerly the issue being debated has been regarded as of at least minor importance, it now received no attention whatever...