Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King James version of the Bible," says the announcement, "is one of the great monuments of English prose, but any standard version, ancient or modern, may be used. The plays of Shakespeare, as foremost among the masterpieces of the English tongue, are indispensable to all students of literature. Moreover, the language of Shakespeare, like that of the Bible, has become part and parcel of our familiar speech...
...final meeting of Club before the recess, Jane Addams, writer and lecturer on social and political reform, will speak on "Disarmament". Miss Addams, founder of the Hull House Social Settlement in Chicago, is known as America's foremost woman social worker. She is at present chairman of the Women's Peace Party and of the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace...
Harvard, There is the Oxford of America, a university in every sense of the word, undoubtedly the best and foremost stronghold of real education and culture in our country. Unfortunately I was brought up in a part of the land where Harvard is usually spoken of in (shall I be conservative and say) neutral terms. Therefore my mind has a vague, ghostlike, untrue conception of a creature stamped "Harvard man" I fully realize how absurd my idea is, yet an idea is an idea and when it is stamped on the brain, well, it is bound to cling more...
...experience among war aviators and in connection with flying here in the United States, have led Mr. Driggs to be considered the foremost authority on aviation in the United States...
...with the aid of several former Lampooners is making it at last a worthy offspring of its proud parent, contributes a sketch. Stephen Leacock submits a friendly little piece called "The Oldest Living Graduate," which is placed at the head of the number, where any contribution by America's foremost living humorist deserves to be placed. There are also verses and sketches by the genial and versatile James Montgomery Flagg...