Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ranks among the foremost authorities on Chinese Art, both as an explorer and collector...
...adopting the resolution just quoted, the Assembly registered for posterity that in March, 1926, the foremost statesmen of Europe were not yet ready to take the final step designed to bring the Locarno Treaties into effect...
...main item of interest in Charlotte, aside from the natural beauties--all scenic, is character or local color. Foremost in giving Charlotte its fame is a gentleman, called by the more jocose, Gawdammit, mainly because of his continuous invocations to that deity in the course of his conversation. I remember one summer evening when I met him in front of Breezy Point Library, a euphemism, where there was an entertainment. Said Gawdammit, "Thar be a big crowd here tonight -- -- -- yes sir. Had I a known about it I'd has brought the old woman over for a time...
...pole vault, setting a new meet record in the latter event when he cleared 12 feet in an exhibition leap after having won the event at 11 feet 3 inches. The former Harvard man was the outstanding individual contestant in the meet and shared with Lord Burghley, England's foremost hurdler, and R. S. Starr, Cambridge distance runner, the distinction of being winner of two first places...
...argument perhaps a trifle subtle for Vagabondian comprehension--but at all events, worth while. Yet the Semitic Museum will no doubt win the day, for no Vagabond can resist the temptation to hear of his ancestors, and Professor Hooton in Room A will talk on the Cro-Magnon Man foremost of Vagabonds. Thus endeth the morning. And Boze Suyder is playing at Waldron's in the afternoon...