Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That such an elaborate institution should be set up by the munificence of one of the nations foremost financiers for the sake of a branch of erudition that was considered a vast of energy twenty for the sake of a branch of erudition that vast field of evidence that shows what rapid strides have been made by economics in recent years. It used to be called the dusty dismal science theoretically abstruse aloof from the workaday would. In the present age when the economic is woven with or even dominates the political and social as never before...
...Padden of Indian Harbor, Labrador one of the foremost assistants to Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, will be at Phillips Brooks House at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon. He will receive all former workers for The Grenfell Missionary and also all men interested in working for the Mission in Newfoundland or Labrador this summer...
...long discussed and often debated question of the uses and abuses of higher education was recently silhouetted in a vast flood-light of truth from the pen of one of 'America's foremost educators, President A. Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard. President Lowell, in his annual report to the directors of Harvard University, considers the various high points of college and high school education unprejudicedly and in a manner which only one with a scope as is his could attempt. Another vast field for intellectual advancement which is very favorably considered by this eminent savant is that of self-education...
Both Jean Frenchman and the foremost criminologists of France have followed for exactly a year (TIME, Jan. 18, Feb. 1, 1926) the astounding trial at Melun concerning a cult whose members revived at Bordeaux the sorceries of the Middle Ages and the flaggellant rites invented by the infamous "Marquis de Sade...
Professor McDougall is ranked among the foremost psychologists of the world. He obtained his degree of Master of Arts at Oxford and shortly afterwards became a member of the British. Society of Psychical Research. In 1898 he was made a reader in mental philosophy at Oxford, becoming a Fellow of Corpus Christ College...