Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foremost of today's musical scientists is 72-year-old, white-haired Psychologist Carl Emil Seashore, dean emeritus of the Graduate College of Iowa State University. Last week, Dean Seashore published a highly technical volume* containing the results of a lifetime's research in musical psychology. Psychologist Seashore's volume explains the psychological nature of consonance and dissonance, of accentuation in piano playing, of a singer's vibrato. "One is at once impressed," admits Psychologist Seashore, "with the appalling task which this inceptive science has assumed for itself, and how undeveloped the work is within this...
Brain behind the idea is an Admirable Crichton named Charles Moody, 34-year-old son of a Southampton dock superintendent, "America's foremost British Butler," editor of Staff, secretary & treasurer of the Butlers Club, author of four books 'and 80 short stories. Professionally, however, the impeccable Mr. Moody is butler to Mrs. William J. Babington Macaulay (formerly Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady of Manhattan and Manhasset, L. I.), wife of Eire's Minister to the Vatican...
...their toil-won bread, and because $1,425,000,000 is a lot of Government money to have to spend in an election year, Harry Hopkins has inevitably become regarded as a prime mover-and prime target-on the national political scene. To himself, however, he remains first & foremost the dutiful boss of "Men at Work...
...Publisher Stern shouted: "ACE G-MAN BARES GERMAN CONSPIRACY TO PARALYZE UNITED STATES!" Tired Mr. Turrou was going to turn out enough articles to run "for several weeks." Said he in Publisher Stern's advertisement: "I Can Tell You That a confidential conference between President Roosevelt and a foremost naval designer, held secretly in the White House, was known in detail in Nazi spy headquarters in Germany within a few hours! "I Can Tell You That the Nazi Government spent huge sums to further their espionage in this country. . . ." U. S. Attorney Lamar Hardy, in charge...
...time there was a rumor that Japan had decided not to accept games, and Finland was prominently mentioned as the foremost candidate for the games. This rumor was controverted, however, by the action of the meeting in March in Cairo, Egypt, which defintely voted that the games should take place in Japan the year after next...