Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Died. Marie Adrienne Anne Victurnienne Clementine de Rochechouart de Crussol, Dowager Duchess d'Uzes, 85, for 60 years France's foremost socialite, able huntswoman, sculptress, novelist, playwright; of pneumonia, at the home of her daughter Duchess de Luynes...
...turned to fighting about art. Last year Edsel Ford gave the money for a set of frescoes on Detroit industries, to adorn the walls of an Italianate garden court in Detroit's Institute of Arts. Director Wilhelm R. Valentiner gave the job to the new world's foremost muralist, robustious Diego Rivera, who came and swabbed for eight months, losing 125 Ib. (from 310) the while.* Last month for the first time Detroiters were let into the court whose plain white panels had been covered with Rivera's brilliant pigments...
...enough in 1933, further depressed by a national bank holiday that stopped one week's sales everywhere, was reduced to a point where General Motors and Chrysler temporarily suspended national advertising. Ford was employing 27,000 men against 42,000 before the holiday. Many of Detroit's foremost citizens, already half or more broke, found themselves faced by the prospect of having to pay huge assessments on their bank stock holdings. And there was no promise of early bank re-openings...
...will not regret having spent three brief years scratching the surface of a deposit of facts and interesting problems about the Earth which have been accumulating for over a billion and a half years, nor will he be anything but thankful for his acquaintances with some of the foremost geologists of the country who are now teaching at Harvard
...addition to the all-star collegiate contest, there will be a game between all-star teams from the Greater Boston interscholastic League and the Bay State interscholastic League. The figure skating part of the evening features Miss Maribel Vinson, one of the foremost performers of the United states and members of the Olympic figure-skating team. There will also be exhibitions by the "Skating Maddens," G. B. Hill and Mrs. T. W. Blanchard...