Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...streets of Washington at midnight. Stopping before a house on S Street, he entered. He approached a bedside in an upper room around which a woman and her two young sons were gathered, attending their husband, their father. Just 30 minutes afterward death claimed his due?probably the foremost politician the Negro race has produced...
...forget drama and concentrate on the physical act; to remember, when aiming his last white tiddlewink at the cup, that his mother is looking on, spells ruin. But champions steal a vigor from exigency and use the electric air of crises as a wine. Perhaps the foremost exponent of this ability is William Tilden. No other personage engaged in sport has an equal sense of the dramatic...
...Bautista Saavedra President ? really dictator. He promptly exiled his opponents from the country. Early last spring he decided it was safe to risk an election. In order to make the election as safe as possible the Republican party nominated for President Dr. Jose Gabino Villanueva, one of the foremost surgeons of South America, former chief surgeon of the Bolivian Army. Senor Villanueva was a member of the Liberal (opposition) party who it was believed would be amenable to Saavedra's "leadership." For Vice President Abdon Saavedra, the President's brother was chosen. The fusion ticket carried the country...
...Louis Lipsky, one of the foremost leaders of U. S. Jews, has been interested in the Zionist movement since its inception in the U. S. some 25 years ago. Under him, the movement has grown amazingly, and its success can be attributed in no small part to Mr. Lipsky's wholehearted devotion, combined with the greatest ability. Mr. Lipsky is also a member of the Executive Committee of the World Zionist Organization and, in this capacity recently paid a five months' visit to London and Palestine where he made an exhaustive study of conditions. On his return...
...gloves to touch those of black Harry Wills. That was the look upon his face a few minutes later, when he was helped to his corner, vomiting dreadfully, after having been knocked out in the second round of a bout which proved 1) that Wills is still the foremost challenger for Dempsey's title; 2) that a U. S. prize ring still occasionally does duty as an abattoir...