Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...States, which would be decisive." The U.S., not a participant in the conference, remained well in the background. However, the delegates were learning what the U.S. meant by European selfhelp. Ramadier gave a luncheon for U.S. Under Secretary of State Will Clayton, who has become the world's foremost foe of trade barriers. After that, the delegates began to talk more about removal of European trade barriers...
...Belgium, behind the ancient walls of Liège University, the world's foremost authorities on medical criminology gathered to report their latest findings. There was so much to tell that the lectures, being delivered in three rooms simultaneously, had to be limited; every five minutes, an alarm clock rang to silence a speaker...
...England, the Old had the edge. A 1940 air raid left 14th Century Coventry Cathedral a Gothic shell; in 1944, while bombs rained on England, a dispute started raging on how Coventry should be rebuilt. Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, 67, a Roman Catholic, and one of England's foremost ecclesiastical architects, readapted a design which the Church of England had used but forgotten so long that it seemed new: a cruciform cathedral with the high altar at the center of the cross. This design provided sections of the cathedral where non-Anglicans could worship by themselves. Most of England...
Johnson, a Marine Corps reserve captain and one of the foremost U.S. small-arms experts, holds that anyone can learn to shoot with his toy as efficiently as with an ordinary rifle. The Marine Corps and the British Government are considering them for possible use in training. One Marine Corps base has already ordered some to sell in its post exchange. In his small two-story, ivy-covered plant at Cranston, R.I., Johnson has already turned out 10,000 rifles for sale in toy and gun stores. Retail price: $15. With the target rifle he hopes that his company, which...
...former Army generals and one of the world's foremost scientists received honorary degrees from the University this morning along with nine other national figures at the high point of Harvard's 296th Commencement proceedings in Tercentenary Theater...