Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jose Ortega y Gasset, one of the foremost European political philosophers, Professor of Philosophy and Literature at the University of Madrid, has been chosen Godkin Lecturer for this year, and will deliver a series of lectures during the first part of May, it was announced yesterday. Titles and dates of the lectures will be given out later...
...chief end. In a time when women compete with men in politics, business and badness, goodness and piety are seldom seen practiced on a grand scale, or recognized as such by the Press. Moreover, Papal Duchess Brady is shy, extremely apprehensive of publicity. Yet she is the foremost member of her social class in a faith which demands completely public acts of faith of its people. While her husband was living, Mrs. Brady-Dame of Malta, Dame of the Holy Sepulchre, holder of the Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice-founded the Carroll Club (for Catholic business girls), visited and gave...
Other works are by Robert Nanteuil, one of the foremost French artists of the seventeenth century, Stephano Della Bella, an Italian etcher, Vaillant, a less familiar French artist, and Jose Ribera, a Spaniard...
...Americans are much more experimental in their attitude toward science and public affairs", said J. G. Crowther, one of the foremost science writers in England and scientific correspondent in London of the Manchester Guardian, in an interview shortly after his arrival from England yesterday afternoon, speaking of the profess of science in Europe and America...
Last week a new science was given a new name. Hydroponics, by its foremost U. S. practitioner, Dr. William Frederick Gericke of the University of California. Set out in row's at the University's plant experiment station in Berkeley are a number of shallow tanks made of wood, concrete, metal. From some of these tanks grow thick, towering clumps of tomato plants bearing rich red clusters of fruit. From other tanks and in an equal state of vigor grow potatoes, tobacco, gladioli, begonias. The roots of the plants are not in soil but in chemically treated water...