Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suppose this idea is based mainly upon the fact that he is going to a military institution to be taught to be a military man, but if we analyze the qualifications of a milltary man I fall to know of any of which an academic training is not the foremost, though no college has carried out is fullest mission if it has neglected the mental, moral, or physical education of its students. Unfortunately, he goes only for four years and is expected at the end of that time to know his profession. With most other professions a student spends...
...Indy is today one of the two foremost figures on the French musical horizon. As a youth, with the vision of youth, he recognized the genius of Wagnerian music when it was generally condemned in France. He attached himself to Cesar Franck, greatest of recent composers, and remained loyal to his master throughout his bitter struggle to reform French taste and introduce the new musical standards. His reward has come in seeing Wagner and Franck justified, France raised to a high place in the musical world, and himself made leader of one of her two greatest musical institutions. With Saint...
...States Bureau of Education and was recently Educational Editor of the New York Evening Post. Dean Walters is a graduate of Lehigh University and was formerly Registrar and Assistant Professor of English there. "School and Society" is said to share with the Educational Supplement of the London Times the foremost position in educational journalism in the world...
...foremost naturalists of the English-speaking world, Mr. Beebe, whose latest book "Edge of the Jungle", is having a large sale has a delightful vein of playfulness which is shown in his recent review of "The Cruise of the Kawa", a screaming burlesque on South Sea expeditions such as he writes of seriously, and in his story of the time when, as an aviator, he bombed a farmhouse full of German soldiers though aiming at a troop train, and upon his return he did not trouble to correct the French soldiers who complimented him on his fine shot...
...played a prominent part in the shaping of the policies of his party. At the National Convention in 1920, at San Francisco, he delivered the keynote address, covering the current political situation so well that he was acclaimed by the press of both parties one of the foremost practical political thinkers of the country. Mr. Cummings graduated from Yale in the class of 1891, receiving his LL.B...