Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even here all is not clear: For I understood from Santayana that it was he who gave Mr. Russell that name; but if I remember correctly Professor Whitehead told me that he himself first called Russell "Berty". It seems to me this is a unique opportunity for our foremost philosophers to come to terms on some point...
...Nawahi wrote a song of welcome, upon which Miss Mader based a dance. Words: "O Roosevelt, universally known, President of the nation, the foremost of America. You are the only President who has come to Hawaii. You have braved the stormy weather and traveled the long seas, stepping over the waves to our calm shores to find Hawaii situated in the midst of the Pacific. Welcome! Here we stand ready before you, the President of the people. Tell us, what would you like us to do, Roosevelt...
...Oberlin College named John Jay McKelvey, the idea was elaborated by his fellow students Joseph Henry Beale, Julian William Mack and John Henry Wigmore. During the Christmas recess young Mr. McKelvey went to Manhattan and sold his idea to the late great Joseph Hodges Choate, one of the foremost U. S. lawyers of the day, who became the magazine's first subscriber...
Number one man on the team is its captain and coverpoint. John Witherspoon is considered one of the foremost players in college ranks, a year ago he was named on the second All-American team. Other start are Jim Wood, fast man at out home. Known also for his soccer playing abilities in the fall, Wooded was unable, due to a thesis, to take the vacation trip, which trip brought George Cushman, second defenseman, into the limelight, when he came through with six goals to take high-scoring honors Joe Magurn at first defense, Henry Riecken in goal, Tom Champion...
Seventy years old, Vasily Kandinsky known as one of the foremost painters in Europe and the United States and it much appreciated in Japan. Beginning the study of art in Munich in 1902, he treated Russian folk-lore and regends in a personal and romantic style still venturing into pure non-objective April in 1909. He was the first artist whose work consisted of pure form and had no subject content...