Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Generally speaking, the official utterances of the Soviet Government represent what its leaders actually believe. Candor sometimes carried to stark extremes is typical of Dictator Josef Stalin. Last week it was a grave and ominous thing that the Dictator seemingly believed the following words. They had foremost place in the official newsorgan of the Government. Isvestia, as part of the weekly critique of international affairs contributed by an expert of the Soviet Foreign Office...
...modeled by Lukeman lurked the same inexplicable resemblance to Abraham Lincoln which has bred gossip of kinship between the two. Such report is based largely on the fact that Lincoln and Davis were born eight months apart, within 100 miles of each other in Kentucky. Dr. William Eleazar Barton, foremost Lincoln scholar, has flayed such gossip as baseless and untrue...
Because they are not his friends, Il Duce saw no reason for including among his "Immortals" the inventor of wireless telegraphy, Guglielmo Marconi; the foremost Italian philosopher, Benedetto Croce, or that orchidaceous but heroic poet-conqueror who stole Fiume for grateful Italy, Gabriele D'Annunzio...
...Europe Elisabeth Ohms is regarded as one of the foremost singers of the day. A native of Arnhem, Holland, she began to study singing at 16, was graduated from the Amsterdam Conservatory at 19, soon afterward appeared in concerts under Conductor Willem Mengelberg. Her operatic career was chiefly molded in Germany-in Mainz where she sang for two years, in Munich where tourists have flocked to hear her Isolde, her Leonore (Fidelio), her Elektra, her Tosca, her Brünnhildes in the Ring operas. Famed too have been her appearances at London's Covent Garden, at La Scala...
...landmarks with recorded rivers and railroads, these were recent methods of town identification for lost pilots. Then the Guggenheim Fund stepped in and asked towns, corporations and individuals (notably postmasters) to label their localities. More than 8,000 places now have proper roof markings, the Fund reported last week. Foremost among the town labelers were oil companies, who welcome customers from above or below...