Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more homeloving bodies than Publisher Adolph Ochs and Business Manager Louis Wiley of the New York Times would be hard to find. Yet their newspaper is the country's foremost daily recorder of expeditions to remote spots upon the earth and off it-cloud-piercing peaks, profound caverns, world's ends, experimental rocketeering. Last week at the New Jersey Newspaper Institute, the man whom Messrs. Ochs & Wiley sent to Antarctica to write daily rhapsodies about the Byrd expedition, eloquent Reporter Russell Owen, explained: "The newspaper in this age of uneconomic unhappiness and social unrest has discovered...
...must make this study!" she cried. "We have had here . . . men from every country in the world explaining the misery to which their populations have been reduced by the march of economic events during the past few years, and though we have in front of us the foremost economists of the world has any one of them given us anything like a scientific analysis of the causes which produced this catastrophe? Not one! And has there been any hint of a general remedy proposed? No! We must employ Science to find the remedy...
...Huey arrived in Cambridge yesterday afternoon, and, except for an informal visit with a few of his intimate friends, the world's foremost prophet spent a quiet evening. He refused to divulge the ultimate winner of the series, because, as he says, "Mr. Street and Mr. Mack are both friends of mine, and I don't want to discourage either of them until it is absolutely necessary...
...Tremont Street, "is one of three known as Constitutional Big Sticks. Three canes were cut from an elm tree which grew on the spot [battlefield of Lexington, Mass.] where the movement for the establishment of American liberty had its inception. These canes are given to the.- three foremost defenders and upholders of liberty and the Constitution in America: William Randolph Hearst, William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and Osee Lee Bodenhamer, national commander of the American Legion." Said Foremost Defender Hearst: "I do not know whether I fully deserve it. . . ." A few days later Chicago...
...last week who appeared most impressed by the first U. S. performance of Maurice Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortileges (A Naughty Boy's Dream), also written for children and given on a double bill with Hansel und Gretel. They were importantly aware that Ravel is considered the foremost contemporary French composer. Some had heard him two years ago with the San Francisco Symphony, knew his suave, mocking Valse, his lovely Mother-Goose Suite, his high-powered Bolero. Prepared to be charmed, they watched the unfolding of his latest fantasy about a boy who shirked his studies, teased...