Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under Africa's threatening skies, Pope sees the Christian missions as facing many critical decisions. Foremost is the question of the schools. "The situation in Southern Rhodesia illustrates it. There the government pays most of the bill of those Protestant and Catholic mission schools which meet government standards, instead of providing universal free education. Under this system, about a third of the children are in school. If the missions turn education.over to the government, it would have to be provided for everyone, and it would cost three times as much. But the missionaries are worried about doing this because...
...paintings, 96 were recovered . .. The Jan Steen (Effects of Intemperance) mentioned in your article . . . had been sold to a Munich businessman, a strange character who in two years had risen from nothing to become the foremost buyer of art objects in that city. Upon learning that Military Government was looking for the Jan Steen he hid it in a garage. There, behind a false wall, it was discovered...
Sounding the Parties. At home in Belgium, the Catholics' sharp Paul van Zeeland, as Premier-designate after the recent election, sounded out the other parties for a coalition whose foremost task would be to hold a plebiscite on the royal question. The Socialists, led by able Paul-Henri Spaak, rejected Van Zeeland's proposals, ordered their powerful trade unions to prepare for a general strike. Led by Roger Motz, the Liberals also rejected the Catholic proposal. The Communists and their bosses such as Edgard Lalmand were not consulted. They have been steadily fading as a factor in Belgian...
Rather, I should like to underline the obvious fact that the standing of any university depends primarily on the quality of its teachers and of its students. I do not have to tell this group of holders of advanced degrees that a university is first and foremost a band of scholars,--members of that ancient and universal company to which the President of Harvard admits the recipients of the Doctor's degree on Commencement day. "To advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity" is the constant aim of the members of a university. In their efforts they must by definition...
Doughboy Colonel. James Van Fleet has little knack for the soldier-statesmanship of an Eisenhower or a MacArthur. He is first and foremost a combat soldier who has thoroughly learned his trade. In World War II, under the incomparable George Patton, he learned the value of speed, surprise, audacity. In his imposing collection of medals the one he likes best is the Combat Infantryman's Badge...