Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best businessman of living authors, in his poverty-stricken days Shaw rarely lived within his means. Once, instead of buying a cheap bowler he paid the top price for a top hat, had to wear it so long that "in its last days it had to be worn tail foremost, as the front rim had become too limp to lever the hat off successfully when he had to salute a lady...
...display a bewildering indifference regarding its fate. Columbia's eleven has brightened the New York horizon by winning a few games, but the editor of the student daily has mitigated the resultant joy by charging the team with professionalism. The worst blow of all, however, has come from that foremost glorifier of the gridiron, the movies. In a current film, "Touchdown," the central figure is an ambitious young coach who cripples a player for life in order to win a game, and then, for the conventional happy ending in an unconventional form, loses his most important game...
Thus did the Senate lose its foremost sarcastigator, the Democrat whose tongue was like the lash of an Arkansas snake whip. The Caraway manner belied the Caraway mind. He used to slouch indolently in his Senate seat or pace the centre gangway and back aisles, hands dug deep in pockets, shoulders humped, bald head bent. Suddenly he would straighten up to cut in on a debate. Never a maker of long formal speeches he drawled out words that stung his adversaries, bitter words that left scars. Not soon will Truman Newberry or Albert Bacon Fall or Harry Micajah Daugherty...
Last week massive President Olin was in New Haven. In the arms & munitions industry New Haven has long meant but one thing: Winchester. Since Civil War days Winchester has been one of the foremost names in the U. S. firearms business. Its .30-.30 became the standard deer rifle, its .405 caliber rifle was known from the day it was first sold as death to moose and elk, its 45-.90 probably killed more buffaloes than any other firearm. The company was one of the pioneers in the popular .22 rifle field, has also been a big maker of ammunitions...
...Willem de Sitter though not generally known in America, is the foremost astronomer of the Continent. His current visit to Cambridge is of interest by virtue of his significant and authoritative refutation of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. The Dutch scientist conceives the universe as being slowly "blown up like a soap-bubble," an idea even more bewildering to the layman than Einstein's "warped space." Though this question is complex enough to make even astronomers' heads swim, its nevertheless illustrative of other disputes that should concern the average man and his beliefs...