Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grove Patterson, editor of the "Toledo Blade", has set forth the functions of the press in an engaging manner. Foremost in his list is the requirement that newspapers should furnish an accurate information service...
...delegation to the Paris Conference in 1919, and during the following two years was one of the legal advisers to the Secretariat of the League of Nations. He is one of the leading advocates of both the Court and the League in this country and is regarded as the foremost authority on the legal aspects of these organizations...
...Blakeslee, now Professor of History and International Relations at Clark University, received his M.A. degree from the University in 1900 and his doctor's degree three years later. He is one of the most prominent students of international affairs in the United States and a foremost authority on the problems of the Orient and Far East. Professor Blakeslee prepared several reports for the American Commission to Negotiate Peace at the Paris Conference of 1917-18 and was technical adviser to the American delegation at the Conference on the Limitation of Armaments. He is the author of several volumes on foreign...
...lover of music can resist. All three composers attain moments of depth. Nevertheless when I want music which I know will have the effect of satisfying me completely I turn to Wagner. I love the Ring of the Nigbelingen and am never quite certain which individual opera stands foremost in my affections. 'Die Walkure', judging from the number of times it has been produced, is probably the popular favorite. The role of Brunnhilde is a beautiful one. Other singers than the great Johanna Gadski have attained fame...
...that he contemplated working up a series of boys' stories; a lad who three years afterwards had the city editor's desk on his newspaper, in five years the head editor's desk of the Baltimore Evening Herald, in 25 years the title (con- ferred by Critic Ernest Boyd): "foremost U. S. publicist...