Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Venerable dwellers in the village of Obersalzbrunn, Silesia, told proudly last week how they had romped as children with Gerhart Hauptmann, now perhaps Germany's foremost man of letters, then the mischievous son of the indigent village hotel keeper...
...Sanlede Skrifter," by Moltke Moe, "Santal Folk Tales," by P. O. Bodding, "Trends in American Seconary Education," by Leonard V. Koos, "The American Wool Manufacture," by A. H. Cole '13, Assistant Professor of Economics in Harvard University, "Cotton Mather, The Puritan Priest," by Barrett Wendell '02, "Increase Mather, The Foremost American Puritan," by Kenneth B. Murdock '17, "Guminberg to Platini," by G. P. Winship '93, "Prints and Books: Informal Papers," by W. M. Iryins '01, "Harvard University Hymn Book," "What Evolution Is," by G. H. Parker '87, "Mr. Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth," by Cowpers Read...
...foremost is, I think, the lack of neighborly spirit in this country. In Europe where most of the people live and die in the same locality their lives are much more likely to become intimately connected and bound up with each other than in the United States where the inhabitants are of a distinctly roving nature. The racial differences in this country also hinder the development of a friendly and cooperative feeling in a community...
Michael Pupin is known to many as the author of an autobiography, unique among its contemporaries in sanity and in self restraint. Yet his name will linger in history as one of the foremost scientists of his time. So it is with a certain respect that one reads his address at the gathering of the International Electro-Technical Commission in which he suggests the fraternity which is concomitant with science...
...friends remember him as a bookworm of athletic prowess at Eton and Christ Church College, Oxford. His father, who is considered the foremost Anglo-Catholic of the day, is said to regard his son's equal devotion to that faith with satisfaction...