Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...latest attack on current methods of education, and particularly on the existing system of College entrance examinations, comes from Dr. Little, foremost iconoclast of outworn tradition. The former president of Maine and Michigan Universities aims his shaft at an extremely vulnerable point when his discussion is confined primarily to the College Boards. A rising chorus of dissatisfaction is baying justly enough at the antiquated methods by which the secondary school graduate is forced to cut his way into college...
...receiving line will be Rear Admiral Sims, retired: General Brown, 1st Corps Commander: Rear Admiral Andrews of the Charlestown Navy Yard, and other notable army and navy officers. The patronesses of the ball will represent foremost Boston families...
There is a constant demand in all departments of educational institutions for increases in salaries. Endowments which result in education which is either wholly free or largely charitable have become traditional in the colleges and professional schools. The Business School is the foremost exponent of an educational organization, which contains the elements of cooperative economic management in place of the old order...
...able to secure some stray public utilities in Iowa. No slow-growing oaks sprang from these little acorns. Within eight years he was estimated to control $2,000,000,000 of invested money in Mid-West gas, power, light and traction companies. Now he is one of the foremost U. S. utility men, has been especially active in developing the United Power & Light...
...been very successful, the men have an incentive in the brilliant performance of the 1929 team, which won the National Intercollegiate Championship from the Philadelphia Military College last February. Both of the opposing teams are strong, particularly the 107th Cavalry, whose mentor, Brown, is one of the foremost players in the country