Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wish to correct the statement in TIME, Dec. 16, that the University of Wichita's only claim to fame is its Omnibus College. Wichita University has a much greater claim to fame in the fact that the Dean of the College of Fine Arts is the foremost contemporary U. S. composer, Thurlow Lieurance, master of Indian music...
...pistol while he was unpacking his suitcase in a Los Angeles hotel room. He had studied in the University of Southern California and received his degree of Dr.-Es-Lettres at the University of Paris in 1928. At Paris he studied under the Croiset brothers, two of the foremost classical scholars of their time, and he himself was a noted authority on Homer, about whom he had written several books...
...Fine Arts this week is showing a selection of Walt Disney's best. A rising school of criticism in this country ranks Mr. Disney as the foremost American artist. The furore produced for example, by "The Three Little Pigs", in merchandise, music, and mational thought, is unparalleled in the history of artistic phenomena. Besides Mr. Disney's delightful fantasies modestly called Silly Symphonies, replete with brilliant color, there is Mickey Mouse, man's only rodent friend...
...group of happy youngsters celebrated the other night an event. What the event was is neither pertinent nor known. The point is that their rejoicing was along the traditional lines; all hard feelings were purged away with alcohol, that foremost disinfectant. Oh, nothing in excess, mind you; the precepts recently laid down by the Crimson were strictly observed...
Having seen the New Deal bungle in selection of cases to test the constitutionality of some of its other measures, friends of the National Labor Relations Act passed by Congress last July were on the alert for a test case which would let the Government put its best foot foremost. Last October, Associated Press abruptly discharged one of its Manhattan staffmen named Morris Watson, explained that after seven years it was "dissatisfied with his services." Newsman Watson countercharged that AP had violated the Labor Act by firing him because he was a vice president of the American Newspaper Guild, newshawks...