Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture of this development; the foundation of the book is the influence on the character of the Californians of the fertile soil, of the newness of the country, of the splendid untouched natural resources, of the new forces stirring in America as she began after 1870 to take a foremost place in the family of nations...
Iraq. A director of diggers is Dr. James Henry Breasted, founder and head of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, foremost U. S. archeologist. Now 68, he has twelve lieutenants at work all over the Near East. Last year he visited them by airplane, brought back news of a great aqueduct built by Sennacherib (TIME, Jan. 1). Last month he went to Manhattan to receive from the hands of a special messenger the most important find any of his men have made this year-a clay tablet no bigger than Primo Camera's hand, bearing four columns...
...soldiers paraded, no trumpets blared, no drums rolled out an elegy. But throughout the Western World last week a mighty marching tune reverberated. Sir Edward Elgar, 76, was dead in Worcester, England. He was Britain's foremost composer. Master of the King's Musick. His Pomp and Circumstance was practically a national anthem.* But as he lay dying from an abdominal operation last autumn. Sir Edward had made his daughter promise not to give him a pompish London funeral. He had grown up in Worcester and in Worcester he had chosen to end his days. He never posed...
...with the novel spectacle of members of the Military Science courses squatting in holes in Soldiers Field, industriously firing ball bearings down the field by means of .22 calibre blank cartridges. This fact, proudly announced by the officers of the Unit, will make the Harvard group one of the foremost in the country, it having been selected for the honor of receiving the first battery of these guns...
Died. Fritz Haber, 65, Germany's foremost Wartime chemist, 1919 Nobel prizewinner, inventor of a process for the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen and of several poison gases, co-inventor of the Haber-Bosch synthetic ammonia process; in Basle, Switzerland...