Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baumgarten, stalwart 180-pound guard who is in the front row on every play adding his ginger to the forward wall charge of the Longhorns. This Texan captain will be foremost in testing out Harvard's new central rush line...
...After the exciting 15th round, in which, again, he was nearly knocked out, Carnera's pleasure in the fact that the fight was over outweighed his disappointment at losing. He shook hands vigorously, consoled his manager, William Duffy, who was recently cataloged as one of Manhattan's six foremost public enemies, with a pat on the shoulder. Promoter of the Sharkey-Carnera bout was James J. ("Jimmy") Johnston. Because this and his previous prizefight enterprises last summer had established him as a serious rival, Madison Square Garden Corp. last week offered to make Promoter Johnston general manager. Promoter Johnston accepted...
...last month's meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (TIME, Oct. 5), Dr. Robert T. A. Innes, astronomer, indicated that he has been able to produce stereoscopic effects on the cinema screen. Last week the foremost U.S. authority on the subject, Dr. Herbert Eugene Ives of Bell Telephone Laboratories, showed the Society .of Motion Picture Engineers at Swampscott, Mass, why stereoscopic cinemas were yet impossible in practice...
Spooler & Warper Sirs: Please - it's Barber-Colman [TIME, Sept. 21, p. 55] and it's a spooler and a warper - two different machines. . . . Also this system is acknowledged to be one of the foremost developments of past decade in textile manufacturing, greatly speeding up & simplifying the preparation of the warp threads for the loom and the weaving process. Preparation of the cotton fibre for weaving is a complicated process with too many operations involved. Present mills are seeing and will see a good many simplifications and combinations of these spinning operations (occurring prior to the spooling & warping...
...Author. Edwin Arlington Robinson, 61, foremost if not greatest U. S. Poet (he has thrice won the Pulitzer Prize), is, almost alone among his colleagues, an almost mysterious figure. His hatred of publicity has never drawn him into the limelight. A Maine boy, a Harvardman, he winters in Boston and Manhattan, summers at artistic MacDowell Colony, Peterboro, N. H., does much of his writing there. Poverty once drove him to take a job as dump cart inspector on a subway construction. When Theodore Roosevelt was President he read and liked Robinson's poetry, offered him a consulship in Mexico...