Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following appointments to the Harvard faculty were announced today: Professor Charles Bunn, of the University of Wisconsin Law School, a foremost expert on regulation of utilities, will be visiting lecturer at the Harvard Law School during the next academic year...
Virginia Woolf has been called "the best-equipped and the most disappointing woman novelist in the history of English literature." That she can be considered a disappointment indicates that she may be not just a highbrow writer but perhaps a great one. She is certainly the foremost woman author of her day. Her books are addressed not to a literary clique but to the Intelligent Common Reader. And the address is written in such a fine and flowing hand that even when it is illegible the hopeful addressee can find some profitable pleasure in puzzling over it. Even her obscurer...
...before the Depression. That in 1936 all Federal Theatre enrollees received a higher annual wage than most legitimate Broadway players, who supposedly could take care of themselves and did not need the dole, was an assertion, sensational if true, made last week by The Billboard ("The World's Foremost Amusement Weekly...
...excellent diagnosis of the ailments that have sapped the strength of debating at Harvard in recent years, it is doubtful whether the changes recommended are drastic enough to bring about a renaissance. For however vital the improvements in the Council's technique of management may be, the first and foremost task is to breathe the breath of life into the dead clay of general undergraduate interest...
FROM the pen of one of England's foremost men of letters comes an "Excursion into Autobiography" more startling in its frankness and more comprehensive in its scope than any similar book for many years. J. B. Priestley gives his readers an amazingly intimate self-portrait in "Midnight on the Desert" which stands out as one of the most revealing of all autobiographies...