Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe, Miss Pessl is a serious musician, hunts high & low for original scores of classics. To this end she imported last week 235 lb. of old music from Austria to Manhattan. Born Gabriella Pessl in Vienna 27 years ago, daughter of one of Europe's foremost beauticians, "Yella" Pessl forsook the cosmetic industry, studied the piano, then the organ, and finally began to explore the possibilities of the harpsichord and the clavichord. To combine her three interests of mountain climbing, skiing and music, this dark-eyed, energetic young woman carries a portable clavichord on her back on Austrian outings...
Harry Price is England's foremost investigator of psychic phenomena. For 30 years he has tracked down alleged miracles at home and abroad, slept in "haunted" houses, uncovered the frauds of tricksters. Having inherited money from his family, he spends about $5,000 yearly on his researches. He has acquired 14,000 volumes, some of them rare, on every phase of his hobby from talking animals to stage wizardry. He started doing magic tricks at the age of 8, published a psychic play called The Sceptic at 17. In 1925 he founded and became director of the National Laboratory...
...only be described as slanderous and publicity-seeking. These men, in the name of decency, should have directed their resentment against President-Emeritus Lowell as a private citizen, not as one of the honored heads of a University in the midst of celebrating its birthday by entertaining the foremost scholars of the world...
Wrigley's presents -- THE MARCH OF TIME! A new pleasure for you and a new way of presenting the news of the world! Wrigley's has chosen the man they believe to be the foremost historian of our time, Professor Bruce Hopper, to present to you today's enactment of the world's news. Unlike most advertisers, Wrigley's has no control over the program to be presented, but is content to sit back, as you are doing now, and chew a stick of Wrigley's while listening to the news as Professor Hopper has prepared...
Professor Roosval, who will fill one of the most important visiting chairs, is, at 57, a foremost student of the architecture and sculpture of the Middle Ages, and has brought to the attention of scholars many little known masterpieces of Swedish...