Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First and foremost of the troubles besetting the "Monthly" is what appears to be a confusion of motives in the minds of its sponsors. The aim of publishing a current review of topics interesting to Harvard men deserves a spirited rendition of "Wintergreen". It touches the weakest spot in the armour of "Lampoon" and "Advocate" partisans. The "funnyman" makes no more mature interpretation than youthful jollity and a liberal allowance of beer can produce, while the muses of the "Advocate" often walk too high on literary Helicon for the vulgar population to follow them. Yet if the intended sacrifice...
Athletic Director James Lynah has invited to visit him at his Georgia plantation the week after next the athletic directors from Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale. There can be no doubt but that Ivy League plans will be foremost among the topics discussed at that time. And is certainly hoped that the results of this meeting will point toward the speedy adoption of definite Ivy League plans along the lines suggested in yesterday's editorial...
...Thomas Alva Edison from an old phonograph record. First telegraph message, "What hath God wrought?", was again received from Baltimore on one of the two original instruments of Samuel Finley Breese Morse. In the evening, efficient young Patent Commissioner Conway Peyton Coe read a list of the twelve foremost dead inventors in U. S. history, as chosen by the ballots of a secret committee. The twelve: Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Alva Edison, Robert Fulton, Charles Goodyear (vulcanized rubber), Charles Martin Hall (commercial aluminum), Elias Howe (sewing machine), Cyrus Hall McCormick (reaper), Ottmar Mergenthaler (linotype), Samuel Finley Breese Morse, George Westinghouse...
...country's foremost research psychiatrist, Dr. Adolf Meyer, was called on for comment. Said he: "I am not antagonistic to this work. I find it very interesting. . . . I, too, have hesitations at the thought of a great many of us having our distractibility or our worries removed. To call attention to these operations may start such an epidemic...
...England's foremost cartoonist, Low has for some time had as his piece-de-resistance an elderly Englishman, ample of girth, in a Turkish bath setting, usually making some remark of a topical nature beginning with...