Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Young countries need heroes. Last July a Brazilian general busy crushing a revolution was given pause when one of the rebels, Alberto Santos-Dumont, 59, Brazil's foremost air pioneer, died of arteriosclerosis in the enemy camp, Sao Paulo. The General hurriedly sent word to his federal troops to cease firing for a day, his planes to cease bombing. That day federal planes dropped on the great airman's home proclamations hailing his work, deploring his political affiliations...
...December 28, President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard, and Donald H. McLaughlin, President of the Geological Society of Boston, will welcome the National Geological Society to its first meeting at Harvard. At the evening session, Waldemar Lindgren, head of the Geology Department at M. I. T., and considered the foremost economic geologist in the world, will address the society, and extend the welcome of the Institute...
...regard it as a sort of partnership in which he was the junior member whose financial interests were respected and clearly outlined at every turn. The Administration has adopted the role of Senior Partner and has acted in good faith, not only respecting the undergraduate interest, but keeping it foremost. But in this, as in many another instance, the undergraduate looks not to the fundamental necessity for the measures, but to the manner in which they have been executed. He sees that the reduction in food prices was delayed until a huge profit had accumulated, even though he had felt...
...Edward Jones '10, and those for the ballet "Sadko" by Surgi Sudaykin are among the most noteworthy. Mr. Jones was for some time instructor in the Department of Fine Arts at Harvard before taking up stage designing. Mr. Sudaykin came here from Russia in 1922 and is now the foremost exponent of modernism in opera...
...called sharply to public attention by 20-year-old Sherman Miller, editor & publisher of California Youth. On a white charger Napoleon rides across a wheat field that seems to be exploding under his horse's hoofs. Behind him is his staff, impersonated by some of Hollywood's foremost impersonators. From left to right they are: Director Erich von Stroheim, with his shako cocked over his nose; Producer Joe Schenck as a colonel of the cuirassiers; Douglas Fairbanks of the Hussards de la Garde; Grenadier Clive Brook; le Maréchal Sid Grauman; Adolphe Menjou as Marshal Ney; William...