Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extraordinary degree those highly distilled powers of intellect, intuition and imagination which are rarely combined in one mind, but which, when they do occur together, men call genius. It was all but inevitable that this genius should appear in the field of science, for 20th-Century civilization is first & foremost technological...
Several of the recent allegations of the Lowell House Committee in its letter to the Student Council Food Relief Committee seemed ill-advised. They had apparently forgotten that the foremost issue has been that underfed Europeans need sustenance and that it is worth some sacrifice on the part of better-nourished Americans to supply relief. Besides being unsound economically in supposing that one can have his cake and send it to Europe too, the position of the Lowell House Committee leaves room for doubts about its awareness of the food crisis...
...maps. The sallow one with tousled, thinning grey hair said he wanted to get to Moscow. He said it in Russian. The maps didn't help; the whim of Ilya Grigorevich Ehrenburg to visit Moscow, Ala. was not satisfied.* But by last week the Soviet Union's foremost journalist had spent 15 days rambling through the South at his own pace, following his own itinerary with companions of his own choice. It was the kind of reportorial freedom that U.S. correspondents in Moscow often dream about but never know...
Acting out this long, congested story, the Old Vic remembered first & foremost that it was Shakespeare. It offered no tricks or natty novelties; its only freedom was to build Part II around Falstaff, partly concealing lumpy drama in lively theater...
...medical and scientific experts agreed with him. Dr. Howard J. Curtis of Columbia University, one of the foremost researchers on the atom bomb, thought that an entirely new government agency should be created. And when Dr. Parran suggested that about ten years would be required to spend the $100,000,000, crusty Representative Matthew Mansfield ("Matt") Neely, co-author of the bill, exploded: "We have got to stop piddling around with cancer research. ... I don't care a cuss if the Public Health Service or Harvard College gets the money, if someone will just do what Roosevelt and Churchill...