Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people in this country realize the enormous European reputation of General Wood. His work in Cuba, in the Moro provinces, in the Philippines, have caused him to be regarded abroad as one of the foremost administrators of the world. As an example of this European reputation, Lord Cromer, the famous administrator of Egypt, once remarked that he wished Leonard Wood might be appointed Governor of Egypt...
...write the Pilgrim Pageant, which will form the central feature of the celebration of the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. Work on the pageant, which is to visualize the Pilgrim story, has already begun. Professor Baker is planning to enlist the co-operation of the foremost literary and musical talent in America, and to embody in his work lyrics and musical gems by the most notable writers and composers...
Professor Maurice De Wulf of Louvain University and intimate friend of Cardinal Mercier, has returned to the University to give courses in the division of philosophy. He is one of the foremost living authorities on mediaeval and scholastic philosophy...
University extension work should be provided, he pointed out, to meet more than 30,000,000 people in the United States who are in need of various kinds of instruction. Foremost among these are the 4,500,000 returned soldiers who were preached to about the value of education, but denied the means to get it. Next are 10,000,000 laboring men and women with their short hours and large pay, well able to devote the time and money to study. The foreign element, he listed next, men who especially need this educational treatment to make them better citizens...
Crawford, the Lafayette runner who barely lost to O'Connell in last season's intercollegiates, is one of the foremost entrants in the mile race in which five University men are entered...