Word: foremost
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Professor Lewis, who graduated from Yale in 1886, practiced law in New York until 1895, when he became an instructor of English at Yale. During his 27 years of teaching, he became one of the foremost authorities on the English language in the country. He was the author of several text books on English verse and versification, and was a contributor to many well-known periodicals as well as editor of the "Yale Series of Younger Poets...
Professor de Margerie is one of the world's foremost authorities on the subject of topography. He was the director of the geological survey of Aisace-Lorraine, the past president of the Geological Society of France, a member of the French Academy of Sciences, and a well known writer on topographical subjects...
...firm of Barton, Durstine, and Osborne. In the first talk, which was held on February 13, Mr. R. S. Durstine, a Princeton graduate, spoke on "The Function of the Advertising Agency", while in the second talk on, February 27, Mr. W. A. Dwiggins who is one of America's foremost book designers, spoke on "Advertising Typography...
...important fact that the foremost of American international lawyers has accepted a judgeship on the Court and is now sitting at The Hague. He has participated in all four of the opinions which the Court has handed down, and he has been in the concurring majority in each case. The Court is now hearing a dispute about the Kiel canal, and it has handed down an opinion about the nationality laws of Tunis and Morocco within the last month...
...Dwiggins, one of America's foremost book designers, gave an illustrated lecture on "Advertising Typography" in the CRIMSON Sanctum yesterday evening. This lecture was the second of a series on advertising given under the auspices of the CRIMSON and the Lampoon...