Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter ran as follows: "We, the undersigned American Rhodes Cholars, firmly believing in the principle of free inquiry in American universities, and hoping that the great privately endowed institutions might be foremost in upholding that freedom, regret that Harvard has given cause by the circumstances surrounding the dismissal of Dr. J. R. Walsh an Dr. A. R. Sweezy to fear that liberty of opinion is being curtailed...
...Coronation of Edward VII, his father was Archbishop of Canterbury. Vividly last week he must have recalled that at that lengthy service Archbishop Temple's hands trembled so that he nearly dropped St. Edward's crown, finally clapped it on King Edward's head hindside foremost. Cosmo Gordon Lang did not tremble, his voice did not falter once. From the depths of his heart he was able to give the Coronation Benediction, the noblest words in the entire service...
...torpedo from a German submarine whose periscope had been observed? International complications from this might be so grave that British admiralty officials "suggested," even before a committee of inquiry was constituted, that the Hunter had hit a mine. With great secrecy the Hunter, bow awash, was towed stern foremost into Gibraltar, locked in a closely-guarded drydock, where gold-visored staff officers prepared to go over her plate by plate...
...Rivers was just flowering as a Johns Hopkins pediatrician when the War broke out. As a first lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps he saw so much of the influenza epidemic of 1918 that after the Armistice he became a bacteriologist and the nation's foremost authority on the submicroscopic, filterable viruses which cause diseases like influenza. His great achievement, accomplished at the Rockefeller Institute, was to grow viruses in tissue cultures. This permits quantity production of unadulterated virus, so far chiefly useful for further research. Dr. Rivers latest work has been on a new disease, lymphocytic choriomeningitis, which...
...faith of the graduates was well founded. These three men, enlarging and improving the school, made it a more vital influence in the nation. It has become the foremost institution of the kind in the world, profoundly affecting the teaching and the concepts of the law in all English speaking countries...