Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Certainly he is one of the world's foremost international figures, but his power is problematical; it is too great to compute...
Mary Cassatt was the sister of the late Alexander J. Cassatt, onetime President of the Pennsylvania Railroad. She went to Paris in 1875, where she studied art, becoming an ardent admirer of Velasquez, Manet, Degas. She has long been recognized as one of the foremost American artists. Her particular metier is pastel but she has turned her facile hand to etchings and oils as well. Miss Cassatt, the friend of many people of prominence, has been respected for her personality and her ability everywhere...
Always, however, occurs the exception. It seems probable that Professor Alfred North Whitehead, for twenty-six years lecturer on mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge is one of the lucky few whose coming will attract more than the usual amount of undergraduate attention. Besides being one of the foremost adherents of the school of English Realists, which numbers among its leaders Bertrand Russell, Professor Whitehead is a follow of the Royal Society of England, and was awarded the James Scott prize in 1922 by the Royal Society of Edinburgh...
Tomorrow at 2.15 at the Copley Theatre the Cercle Francais will present Moliere's "Tartuffe". This will be the first time that this incomparable comedy be the foremost dramatist of France has been given by the club. Preceding the play M. Louis Allard, Associate Professor at the University, will deliver a short address...
...chosen judiciously. They are representative of learning in both its empirical and theoretical forms. Thus, it must be noted that the very long list contains such men as Hillaire Belloc, probably the greatest authority on military history in England; Professor Charles Seymour of Yale University, one of the foremost historians of the U. S., H. Pirie Gordon, Foreign Editor of The Times, London; Sir James Ren-nell Rodd, British diplomat of great experience; Andre Tardieu, French statesman of acknowledged gifts...