Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hubert Wilkins, lacking his hat as he usually does in springtime, strode into an obscure store of lower Manhattan last week. The store is only locally obscure. Among explorers it is world famed. The sign outside carries the legend: Fiala Outfits. That is sufficient. Anthony Fiala, 61. is the foremost U. S. outfitter of expeditions. Originally a lithographer and photographer, he sidled into the outfitting business after twice trying to reach the North Pole-with the Baldwin-Ziegler (1901-02) and the Ziegler (1903-05) expeditions. He accompanied Roosevelt through Brazil in 1913-14. Explorer Wilkins found Outfitter Fiala sitting...
...book is a reproduction of the author's series of lectures on Russia given before the Lowell Institute this spring. It is only with this in mind that one can understand why a book of such an elementary nature has been published by Dr. Hopper, who is undoubtedly a foremost authority on present day Russia...
...America, foremost among those nations which still adhere to the old method of competitive and independent business, may soon find herself alone opposed to a new Europe, unified under one economic system and respecting an international court of appeal...
...those of us who have heard of Frank Lloyd Wright as the foremost American architect, have read bitter and sarcastic commentaries on his not being included on the committee of architects for the impending Chicago exposition, and have to our disappointment found that photographs and details of his work are not readily available, the publication of his recent lectures at Princeton comes as a most welcome event...
...Scott, formerly of Margaret Anglin's company in her production of "Electra"; Robert Henderson, whose successes in New York were followed by a year at the Copley Theater in Boston; and George Coulouris whose work with the Theater Guild has received exceptional praise. Louis Horst, noted pianist and the foremost dance accompanist in America has composed the music for the production, and will accompany Miss Graham in her dance...