Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other countries Conservatives dream vainly of victories as perfect as that won throughout the United Kingdom last week by the world's foremost Conservatives. Everyone had expected them to win (TIME, Nov. 18) but warming to their Capitalist cockles was the post-election firming up last week of sterling, sound City shares and Treasury bonds. Though dull as a whole, the campaign had provided just enough brickbats and pieces of lead pipe hurled by Britain's unique proletariat safely over Conservative candidates' heads. There were no bloody riots, best of all no facing of grim domestic issues...
...unreliable witnesses," the letters of one being "thoroughly dishonest." Though Mr. Chrysler "admitted far more than enough" to indicate full knowledge of the deal, he was cleared of any direct part in it. But Sir Cyril shook his bewigged head. "Mr. Chrysler is said to be one of the foremost industrialists in America," he declared. "Some of his answers show that his standard of business morality is lamentably low. . . . The less said about honor in this case the better...
...accordance with a policy of exhibiting whenever possible the works of the foremost modern German artists, there will be a collection of watercolors and drawings by George Gosz on display at the Germanic Museum beginning today and continuing until December...
Gosz, who is considered to be the foremost artist of the modern German school, came to America from Germany in 1932, not an a political refugee, however, and is at present teaching at the Art Students League in New York. In his works he shown himself with great emphasis to be a social satirist, pacifist, radical, and an ant-Nazist, and before coming to America he was extremely bitter in portraying German life, especially the bourgeoisie class. Since his departure from his native land, however, he has become much milder in his treatment of subjects, perhaps because...
Harvard's Tutorial System has gradually established itself as one of the foremost in the world. To many it represents all that is best in the Harvard educational set-up. But the System is hideously expensive. It costs far and away more than the lecture system, which is the nearest thing to mass production the mental world has ever seen...