Word: foremost
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...first & foremost U. S. woman doctor is Florence Rena Sabin. Unimportant that she was the first woman to graduate from Johns Hopkins Medical School (1900), first to teach there, first to become a full member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Unimportant the honors: Dr. Simon Flexner calling her the greatest living woman scientist and one of the foremost scientists of all time; the National Academy of Sciences making her its first woman member; Pictorial Review giving her $5,000 for "achievement." Her importance lies with her studies in anatomy and pathology. She has made an atlas...
...hung in Lowell House, and the second in the University's portrait collection since early in Harvard history. Miss Lowell who, according to legend, smoked big, black cigars, and said. "I'm the only member of the Lowell family who is worth a damn," was one of the foremost Imagist poets...
Professor Williams is regarded as one of the foremost authorities on banking and currency. He has recently returned from Europe, where he served as one of the two United States representatives on the preparatory commission of experts for the World Economics of Conference to be held in London in June. He graduated from Brown University in 1912, and obtained his master's degree at Harvard in 1916, and his doctor's degree in 1919. He served as assistant professor of Economics at Princeton University in 1919-20, and associate professor of Banking at Northwestern University the following year. A member...
...Beerage. If there had been an Almanach de Gotha of beer, its publishers after a 13-year lapse might hardly know how to start again, so many have been the changes. Yet the publishers would certainly know where to begin: with B for the Busches of Budweiser, unquestionably the foremost house of the beerage, a house which one year produced 1,650,000 barrels,* an alltime record. Adolphus, the founder of the Busch line, was the hearty offshoot of a wealthy Busch family of Mainz on the Rhine. He arrived in the U. S. in 1857, aged 15, served...
Editor Van Coevering does not overburden his magazine with preaching. Most of it is filled with conversational stories about Michigan fields & streams, articles on sports and Nature-lore. Michigan's foremost Nature-lover and onetime Governor, Chase Salmon Osborn, contributes a lyrical paean to Spring. First issue of 40,000 sold out 95%, even in hard-pressed Detroit...