Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such were some of the historic manifestations of the terrifying might of typhus which Harvard's Professor Hans Zinsser, foremost U. S. authority on the disease, details in his Rats, Lice & History, published this week by Little, Brown & Co. Week before publication Dr. Zinsser sailed for France to lecture at the University of Paris...
...foremost cripple in the world, the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons wanted President Roosevelt to attend their banquet in Manhattan last week. They asked one of their colleagues. Dr. Michael Hoke. the President's good friend and surgeon-in-chief of Georgia...
...Leavy White, captain of last year's Freshmen, has been doing an adequate job at right forward, with occasional flashes of brilliance, as against Tufts, although he is prone to tire easily. At the other forward, Tommy Stephenson is being pushed hard by a multitude of candidates, first and foremost among them being Ray Lavietes, a Junior, who played for the Jayvees last winter...
Another professedly "clever move" was to sponsor a Washington meeting of the editors of all college dailies. There they were feted and dined, and then removed to New York to be subjected to the wisdom of some of Mr. Hearst's foremost satellites. Two Washington newspaper men of recognized enterprise asserted this was just his way of pouring syrup after a challenging letter sent him by the Association of College Editors. Mr. Hearst imagined, they declared, that such generosity would make immeasurably easier the progress of the "red scare" among the separate colleges...
...necessary evil and who prepares for his conferences with little or no enthusiasm. But to deprive worthy students of an opportunity to work with a tutor, as might happen if the Committee's suggestion was wrongly interpreted, would be abandon a policy that has made Harvard one of the foremost centers of intellectual activity...