Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foremost in drawing up the plans was the late Edward William Bok (TIME, Jan. 20) editor of the Ladies' Home Journal, son-in-law of Publisher Curtis, who bequeathed $850,000 to the center. William Curtis Bok, his son, is heading a corporation which will manage the Curtis center on a non-profit basis. The finished edifice will house: an auditorium seating 4,000, for use by the Philadelphia orchestra, the Philadelphia Grand Opera company, the Philadelphia forum; a civic theatre seating 1,500; a "junior auditorium" seating 600, for recitals, lectures, rehearsals and "meetings of an intimate nature...
...college fraternities as infantile. Last week, through the enterprise of press photographers, the U. S. was given an intimate contemporary view of a European college activity seldom viewed by outsiders-the Schläger mensur or "sport duel," as still practiced secretly with sharp sabres at the foremost universities of Germany...
...newspaper mentioned Floyd L. Carlisle, chairman of Niagara-Hudson Corp. Last week every utility-minded newspaper reader heard of Mr. Carlisle in connection with three important utility developments. Last week every utility-minded newspaper reader realized that Mr. Carlisle, long an important utility figure, had risen to the very foremost rank...
...Holy Cross nine, almost annually the foremost candidate for the mythical eastern baseball championship, once again has come to the front this season with an outstanding team, and has lost but two games. It dropped one game to Columbia 6 to 5, in its second start of the year on April 22, and then won 13 games and tied one through to June 4, when it lost to Providence...
Head of the foremost polo family in the world, Thomas Hitchcock Sr. was one of the sporting, rich and able-bodied young men of 1886 who got up the first U. S. international team, played a match with the English at Newport, were soundly beaten. He married Louise Eustis whose interest (and ability) in polo has become celebrated through her coaching of youngsters at Aiken, S. C. and at Westbury (TIME, Oct. 8). Soon the association's 17 ponies will be moved, in the padded, glistening trucks which Long Island people call "horse-vans," from Mitchell Field...