Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...questioning himself, then he entered wholly, passionately the Roman Catholic Church. The perfume of censers and the deep thoughtful twilight of cathedrals began to mingle strangely with the keen and originally hated wit of this great young writer-for Paul Claudel rapidly became, and is still, one of the foremost poets and dramatists of France...
High among the foremost prejudices of our academic forbears, however, was that which led them to look upon the theatre with particular horror and loathing, as the breeder of corruptness and the instrument of the devil...
This club, which was the foremost club in Helsingfoors, had already turned out men who had been place winners in the Olympic games, and the interest in all sorts of sports was intense. Mikkola showed an adaptability in all athletic games which soon placed him in a prominent position in his club, and his activity in this respect and in other fields made him well-wnown throughout the whole of Finland. He became celebrated as a marksman, won the pole vault and steeple chase in the athletic games held in Petrograd as a captain in the army won several medals...
Tibet. Colonel Peter Kozlov, foremost Russian explorer, last week published in Moscow a report on his recent discovery of Kharakota, dead Tibetan city. Huge stone figures of "evil-eyed females" and a wellful of buried treasure were prominent items. Colonel Kozlov estimated that the simian population of Tibet-monkeys, gorillas, mandrills-far outnumbered the human "and could supply the world's demand for rejuvenation glands for a century." In Kookooner Lake he came upon an island inhabited only by three large-framed, shaggy Buddhist monks who, never before having seen a civilized man, fled like pious cavemen...
...conference, opportunity will be given for discussion led by competent leaders. Foremost among these will be Henry Pett Van Dusen of Union Theological Seminary...