Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed, scholarly Dean Roscoe Pound, 63. President Conant has been dropping in occasionally on Law School meetings. Once while the Law faculty was sitting for its portrait, he eased Dean Pound out of his accustomed place in the centre of the picture. Others in the picture: Samuel Williston, 72, foremost U. S. authority on contracts, Thomas Reed Powell, 53, Zechariah Chafee Jr., 48, Manley Ottmer Hudson, 47, Sam Bass Warner. Absent: Francis Bowes Sayre, 48, criminal law expert and son-in-law of Woodrow Wilson who last November went to Washington as Assistant Secretary of State; Felix Frankfurter, 51, author...
Confreres say that James Conant became one of his country's foremost organic chemists because he was thoroughly conversant with other sciences and quick to apply their techniques to his own. His most famed achievement was discovery of the chemical structure of chlorophyl, green coloring matter which sustains plant life. He was working on synthetic manufacture of Vitamin A when Harvard's Corporation called him out of the laboratory for good...
Next day Canton restaurateurs, famed as the foremost in all China, received with dismay this official order...
Harvard meets M.I.T. in boxing tonight at 8 o'clock in the Hanger Gym at Tech for the first match of the season. Lamb and Simmons are the foremost Harvard contenders, while Carey last year's Tech captain, is expected to-give Hines a good battle...
...became Finance Minister and was to be known favorably in every chancellery in the world as T. V. Soong. Thus the tentacles of a single family linked China's late, sainted First President and her living Conqueror, and her greatest Finance Minister and the 75th descendant of her foremost sage...