Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the most prominent of the visiting professors are Sir Frederick G. Hopkins and Etienne Gilson. Sir Frederick is a British Nobel Prize winner, and a distinguished pioneer in vitamin research, who will be a lecturer at the Medial School. Professor Gilson who is probably the foremost Catholic Philosopher in the world today, and who is a great authority on Descartes, and the whole Cartesian school, will be William James Lecturer on Philosophy for the first half-year...
Freshmen unused to the wiles of Cambridge find the art of being a Harvard man harder to master than the study card, class schedule, and H.A.A. ticket embroilment all rolled into one. For one groping in the dark this way it is particularly important to understand that the foremost pleasure of being a Harvard man comes from the fact that there is no such thing...
...Madison, Wis. last week 500 doctors gathered to hear the nation's foremost cancer specialists discuss what is known and what is not known about the second most common cause of death in the U. S.* Expenses of this cancer symposium were paid by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation which thereby saved local doctors about $75 each...
...Tercentenary celebration in which Harvard can take just pride is the Conference of Arts and Sciences. Here the foremost scholars of the world have gathered in Cambridge to hold the most spectacular intellectual symposium of modern times. The explanation of their respective countries and peoples given by Prof. Anesaki of Japan and Dr. HuShin of China; the glimpses into industrialism of the future disclosed by Dr. Bergius; and the startling possibilities of the work done in biological chemistry by such men as Ruzicka of Switzerland; are the parts of the Tercentenary to be permanently remembered. The flattery of Boston newspapers...
...Fermi had arrived in the U. S. to take charge of summer work in physics at Columbia, and that University was eager to let the world know that it was harboring for a few weeks Italy's foremost researcher on the physics of the atom. Since artificial radioactivity was discovered by the Curie-Joliots of Paris (TIME, Feb. 12, 1934), Dr. Fermi by bombardments with neutrons has induced radioactivity in more elements (about 40) than any other scientist...