Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...governmental matters is ... most appalling. . . . This letter I received from a lady, a college graduate, who wrote to her Governor to find out why her garbage wasn't removed"); 2) addressed, as a onetime student, the graduating class at smart Groton School ("I have received letters from men of foremost prominence who have asked me why their garbage is not collected every day"); 3) lunched momentously with President-maker Edward Mandell House, Wilson's "silent partner," at Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass...
...that time a busy business man and Dallas' foremost constructor. He owns the twin 20-story Medical Arts Buildings which, although not Dallas' tallest, are its biggest. On their top floors is the Gary Clinic, one of the country's best. The Gary Clinic now constitutes his chief contact with practical medicine. He is nominally eye & ear man for three railroads. He is head of the A. P. Gary surgical supply house which his brother established, and of the Cary-Schneider Investment Co. which looks after the family's general business interests. Right now he is guiding Dallas...
...Creation of Actress Sybil Thorndike, "foremost British tragic actress," a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire...
...respective magazines (New Movie, Illustrated Love, Illustrated Detective, Home). ¶ Ten years ago famed Typographer Frederic William Goudy was commissioned by Woman's Home Companion to design a new type face for the magazine's headings and captions. In course of its development one of his foremost craftsmen died, the work was halted. Later Typographer Goudy installed a cutting and casting plant in an abandoned mill on his own place at Marlborough-on-Hudson, N. Y., himself resumed the task. Last week the June issue of Woman's Home Companion appeared with the new type, a light...
...International Chamber of Commerce that armament costs rather than high tariffs are the particular cause of Depression about which something should be done at once (TIME, May 18). "Among causes contributing to World Depression." cried Free-Trader Henderson, "the magnitude and high level of protective tariffs rank first and foremost...