Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Today, in the prime of life . . . he is easily the foremost figure in Parliament. . . . He emerges today from No. 11, Downing Street, and such is his buoyancy and tenacity of grip upon the lifeboat of office that I see no reason why he should not one day emerge from...
Louis Marshall, Manhattan lawyer: "My 70th birthday, last week, was seized upon by my admirers as an occasion to call me 'great humanitarian,' 'foremost Jew,' 'great constitutional lawyer.' Julius Rosenwald revived my late wife's term of 'the E. J.-Enthusiastic Jew.' Judge Cardoza said I was 'a great civic institution.' My law partner, Samuel Untermyer, called me 'the most prodigious worker I have ever known.' Besides members of my own race, such men as Elihu Root, James W. Wadsworth Jr., Justice Harlan F. Stone, George W. Wickersham and James Weldon Johnson wrote tributes which were published in the current...
Entirely aside from the program which this, the oldest musical organization in America will present, the concert interest in the fact that Miss Ethel Leginska will act as guest conductor. As a pianist, Miss Leginska is in the foremost ranks of musicians; as a conductor she instills into the orchestra under her baton something of that inexplicable power which makes for life in a piece of music without attendant loss in its character. Of the program, two numbers chosen from a large group of excellent compositions, seem to deserves especial mention the concrete of Grieg and the Marche Hongroise...
...graduate schools his guidance is best illustrated by the School of Business Administration, which he carefully nursed during its precarious years early in his administration and has finally developed into the foremost institution of its kind in America, partly by his wise choice of Mr. Donham as Dean and partly by his own conception of its future. Material evidence of its prosperity and future fruitfulness now stands across the Charles still in the process of development, but well beyond the experimental stage. The Law School is now conducting a drive which will enable it to offer a unique service...
...addition to his work as a educator, President Lowell ranks with Lord Bryce as a foremost authority on government. His "Essays on Government," "The Government and Parties of Continental Europe," and particularly the "Government of England" still rank as standard authorities despite the changes in governmental machinery since...