Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pictures per second, sent it to Atlanta last week to photograph Robert Tyre ("Robot") Jones Jr., world's best golfer, making his shots. George Sargent, onetime P. G. A. president, superintended the photographing. He said that pictures would also be taken of England's Joyce Wethered, foremost female stylist, and 'of graceful old Harry Vardon. The pictures will be distributed to P. G. A. members to teach them how to teach...
Naturally the Scullin embargo is a Death blow, so far as Australia is concerned, to the British scheme of "Empire Free Trade" just endorsed by foremost London bankers (TIME, July 14). Under "Empire Free Trade" there would be no barriers to trade among nations of the British Commonwealth. That could go on as smoothly as does trade between the 48 U. S. states. But around the Empire would rise a tariff wall...
...only lived for many years thereafter, he died at the age of 89, Cardinal Archbishop of Bordeaux and Senator of the Gironde! Messieurs, can France afford to bury alive men who may become her foremost citizens...
...London. He is a musician of sorts himself: performs occasionally on the flute, has written a Melody in a Major which Violinist Fritz Kreisler rendered in a public concert at London last May and which thereupon became a best-seller throughout Britain. But Ambassador Dawes is always first & foremost a 100% "Amurrican." Just as Benjamin Franklin wore a coonskin cap in Paris and the late Alexander Pollock Moore gave stock-market tips and slapped backs in Madrid, so Ambassador Dawes strives to do that which is expected of him by the English. He might welcome U. S. college jazz bands...
Died. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 71, author (The White Company, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Micah Clarke, The Hound of the Baskervilles, History of Spiritualism, The Coming of the Fairies); suddenly, of heart disease; at Crowborough, Sussex, England. One of the world's foremost exponents of Spiritualism, he published much information about "summerland," the Spiritualists' hereafter (marriage, cocktails, wine, eternal youth, no childbirth). For the wicked, he believed, there is no Hell, only centuries of waiting "in a grey drab room." According to Sir Arthur's tenets his soul remained in abeyance, earthbound and neuter, for three days...