Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robinson, Jr., Professor of Architecture, will be absent from the School during the second half year. His place will be taken by Andre Leconte, architect diplome par le Gouvernement Francais, and winner of the Grand Prix de Rome in 1926. M. Leconte, generally regarded as being one of the foremost European authorities on architecture, was recently asked by the Architectural Record to make detailed scale drawings of the mosaics at Constantinople, which are now on display at Robinson Hall...
...authors were the 54 foremost cancer combatants, the world's leading specialists in cancer pathology, biology, surgery, X-ray therapy, radium therapy. They wrote in tribute to a great teacher, Professor James Ewing of Cornell Medical School, Manhattan, the man who spent ten years writing Neoplastic Diseases, prime textbook on Cancer. What the 54 authorities wrote comprises a compendium of all current knowledge of Cancer, its causes, treatment, prevention. Because Professor Ewing has always taught that the specialists must depend on the family doctor to discover early signs of cancer, this issue of the Annals of Surgery will...
Russell, who came from a poor family and went to work in an accounting office when 17 years old to help support his parents, has since become one of Ireland's foremost men of letters. He has at various times been a poet, painter, critic, dramatist, prophet, economist, and a gentleman-farmer...
...luckily the children think it is all amusing, delightful. A little book-hardly more than a long short story-Mario and the Magician has more in it than many a lengthy novel, told with the insight and artistry that has made Thomas Mann acclaimed as Germany's foremost novelist...
...Foremost golfer, probably of all time . . . winner of open and amateur championships of Great Britain and the United States . . . [refused] to accept a gift of $50,000 to buy a home . . . unofficial ambassador . . . retiring nature...