Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Clad in a robe of orange silk he stepped softly down America's gangplank in small felt slippers. His eyes behind heavy spectacles were incurious. He is Tai Hsu (pronounced Ty Shü), onetime abbot of the Pai-Yun-Se Temple near Canton, and conceded China's foremost Buddhist...
...held directly after the Intercollegiates, in which the best teams of the country will compete for the National Championship. If the Harvard malletmen should emerge victors in the former event, it is quite possible that they may win the open tournament, thus establishing themselves as the foremost trio in indoor polo this season...
...Alumni, but in spite of this opposition, he did not swerve from the lines he had chosen, and after 15 years, has convinced most of the Alumni of that University that his plans were sound, while at the same time winning for himself a place as one of the foremost educators in the country. University Presidents, who are "yes-men," rarely fight large numbers of influential Alumni...
...present the "P. E." has put a small army of engineers in Palestine, to build dams, erect power stations and thus filch electricity from the biblical River Jordan. Since Pinchas Rutenberg is first and foremost a Zionist, the "P. E." is keeping a careful motion picture record of the Jordan "before and after." In so far as possible the engineering staff is kept 100% Hebrew, but Arabs are used for pick and shovel work...
Enigmatic Morgan. The foremost financier on this round Earth favored the Second Dawes Committee, last week, with an address lasting only a few seconds. At an early session of the Committee, when the other delegates each made succinct 10 minute speeches outlining the policies of their governments, Mr. Morgan rose, indicated his U. S. colleague Mr. Young, and said...