Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bill and raised a 60 million lire ($96,000) fighting fund. In one house in Milan, any customer signing a petition against the bill was awarded one free visit. The girls and the worried madam in a swank Naples house appealed to venerable Senator Benedetto Croce, Italy's foremost philosopher, to block the bill "so that they too might have a prosperous holy year." Letters against the bill poured in on Senator Merlin, who had herself toured Rome's brothels to collect ammunition for her side...
...stoop-shouldered Philadelphian with an unruly little mustache and a worried look. He has less to worry about than most artists, for at 35 Stuempfig is a solid critical and popular success: he has sold out three one-man shows in six years and won a reputation as the foremost young "romantic" painter in the U.S. Stuempfig's latest exhibition, which opened in a Manhattan gallery last week, did nothing to diminish that reputation, but it did raise a question : How romantic...
...Western Europe was concerned, the U.S. objective was clear. It was "integration." Some Europeans have professed not to know what the U.S. means by integration; others suggest that the U.S. itself does not know what it means. In recent weeks, ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman, integration's foremost prophet and promoter, as well as other EGA officials, has made its meaning perfectly plain...
...Foremost in his makeup is vitality, drive, and aggressiveness," said Dr. Slight. "But he is expected to shut down these drives and be a man of diplomacy. The tycoon has not much place nowadays. The executive must be a compromiser. Therefore, a great deal of his innate drive cannot be expressed outwardly...
...primary importance in Ulen's preseason planning is the filling of the 440 slot left vacant by the graduation of Ted Norris and 1948 captain Jerry Gorman. Foremost competitor for the middle distance is Doug Kenny, a heldover from last year, with Pete Biere and Paul Tobias showing well in practice...