Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston Symphony is giving concerts in New York this week-end and Symphony Hall will be empty until Sunday afternoon when the very fine Polish pianist, Jan Smeterlin, is to give a Chopin recital. Mr. Smeterlin is probably the foremost living exponent of Chopin's works and his recitals are always marked by the best musical taste as well as by complete technical competence. His program includes the popular Fantasie Opus 49 and Sonata Opus 35 in B flat minor...
...days after the Cavaliers received their 65-0 defeat at the hands of Harvard the undergraduate paper at the University of Virginia brought out the Magna Carta of Professional Football reprinted else-where on this page. Coming immediately after Virginia's humiliation by a team whose foremost virtue has always been its emphasis upon amateurism, the editorial appears to be totally lacking in sincerity...
...team of Burns & Allen, Jazzman Kenny Goodman and his Swing Band. The Big Broadcast of 1937 had its Philadelphia premiere last week, but Conductor Stokowski's personal appearance was canceled at the request of the Musicians Union of which he is a member. -The world's three foremost orchestras, so rated almost unanimously by critics, are the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestras...
...have even signified their attention of coming down mornings because of labs in the afternoon. Among them are Stave Brennan, huge weight man. Others are out for fall sports, including Rod Daughters, who is expected to be one of the foremost broad jumpers this winter and next spring and who will also take up the javelin, as well as Joe Johanson, a sprinter who is playing Soccer...
...Second Folio, published in 1632, contains the names of the foremost actors in the plays, Shakespeare heading the list. The Third, printed in 1664, claims to present seven hitherto unpublished works "according to true original copies." Six of these are spurious, however, and only one, "Pericles, Prince of Tyre, is Shakespeare's. The others, which include such plays as he "Yorkshire Tragedy" and the "Puritan Widow" are by authors unknown today...