Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week Dr. Marie Carmichael Stopes, foremost British champion of birth restriction, won her long battle with the Lord Chamberlain, wrung from him a license for her cinema tract Our Ostriches...
...forgotten as the House Plan has usurped the attention of architects. The Department of Biology, like its sister Department of Chemistry before the erection of Mallinckrodt, has been too long housed under antiquated, inspiration-deadening conditions. The University at which Louis Agassiz taught in the years when he stood foremost among American biologists, has seen its influence in that field waning, principally from the lack of proper equipment. No science can be content in the twentieth century with the laboratories that were modern in the nineteenth: and it is fitting that Biology, rising to new importance as the study...
Socialist Upton Sinclair might be a better novelist if he kept anti-capitalist propaganda out of his books; but probably in that case he would not write at all. Of all U. S. authors, Author Sinclair is doubtless the foremost believer in Art for Man's Sake. Preacher first, novelist second (a bad second), he has founded many a tragic, many a sordid tale on fact, embellished it with idealistic Utopian fantasy, false to human nature. Mountain City, latest of his many novels, is more a sordid than a tragic story, its propaganda negative, implied rather than explicit...
...college to take care of Author Sinclair's furnace at Helicon Hall, dropped the Harry from his full name (Harry Sinclair Lewis), later quarreled with Author Sinclair. Author Sinclair's books have been translated into many foreign languages; he is regarded in Germany and Russia as one of the foremost U. S. writers. Slight of frame, professorial, bespectacled, Author Sinclair lives in Pasadena, whence issue tirelessly books, propaganda, publicity, both Socialist and person. He has the smile of a fanatic. Other books: The Jungle, King Coal, Oil!, The Brass Check, The Goose-Step, Boston, Singing Jailbirds (a play...
...make a place for its new President. M. I. T. reorganized its executive body in thoroughgoing fashion. Dr. Samuel Wesley Stratton, retiring President, now becomes chairman of the executive board and corporation, Big Businesslike, as befits the foremost U. S. technical college...