Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foremost authorities on Maya history, including Dr. S. G. Morley of the Carnegle Institute. Dr. Spinden of Harvard, and the British archaeologists Maudslay and Joyce, are agreed that Maya culture suffered eclipse before the coming of the Spaniards. There was an early collapse in the seventh century A. D., and a later one in the fifteenth century. The most likely causes of these collapses are civil war, exhaustion of the soil, climatic change and the appearance of disease...
Extremely sage bets: Inventor Marconi; Soldier-patriot-poet-playwright d'Annunzio; Composer Toscanini (director of La, Scala, Milan, "The Foremost Opera House of Europe"); Conductor Mascagni (composer of the score for Cavalleria Rusticana); Philosopher-satirist-playwright Pirandello (author of Six Characters in Search of an Author, a play hailed with acclaim on Broadway); Statesman Mussolini and as many Fascist statesmen as are able to get in under the limit of 60 Immortales...
...conference on Friday night. Professor Hudson was a member of the American delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, has been associated with the Secretariat of the League of Nations, and was adviser to the Washington International Labor Conference two years ago. He is acknowledged as one of the foremost exponents of the League and the World Court in any country. Recently Professor Hudson has been actively engaged in supporting the World Court in the wave of interest which has resulted from the question going before the Senate...
...Fountain. Eugene O'Neill is generally pointed at with pride as the foremost dramatist in America. He works with color, feeling, fear, with realism and occasionally with bitterness. He has an uncanny gift of breathing life into his pen puppets. He is certainly a genius...
Prospects for the team are extremely bright, although N. S. Clifford and Peter Baldwin, former captains at Milton and St. Paul's, respectively, are ineligible. Foremost among the candidates are three members of last year's Milton team which held the 1928 skaters to a tie. They are T. S. Kernan, goal-tender; J. L. Cunningham and E. T. Putnam, Jr., forwards. These three men were all on the Freshman eleven this fall. John Tudor, last year's St. Mark's captain, and M. N. Stanley of Browne and Nichols are other players likely to figure in this year...