Word: foremost
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Putzi's book, probably his last attempt to capitalize on his career as Naziism's foremost political pianist, often reads like an edition of Munich Confidential. Politically and morally, it has the usual 20-20 hindsight. Its value for future historians will lie mostly in the gossipy anecdotes that show Hitler in his moments of off-platform relaxation-some of them very comic, as when Adolf, after the failure of the beer hall Putsch, threatens to commit suicide, but allows himself to be easily disarmed by Hanfstaengl's pregnant wife...
...annual rate about twice that of the U.S. (see chart). Unemployment has effectively vanished, workers' real wages today have advanced 60% since 1950. By 1955 steel output reached 2,000,000 tons a month, topping that of the Reich and establishing Germany as Europe's foremost producer and the world's third (after the U.S. and U.S.S.R...
Shortly after Matheissen's entrance into the Department, a fourth giant was added: Perry G. E. Miller, who made his Harvard debut by aiding Murdock with English 33 and later taking over Matthiesson's course in sectional American literature. Miller has since established himself as perhaps the foremost scholar on colonial literature, and has kept himself yoked to English 33 (or 7) for almost 25 years...
...work, which has revealed a moral degradation at Princeton," Halton turned on one of the university's most distinguished names, Jacques Maritain. Three years ago, Halton revealed, he barred Maritain from speaking at the foundation-even though the French scholar is regarded by many as the foremost living Catholic philosopher. Huffed Halton: "Dr. Maritain does not have a very sound philosophical background ... I can think of no man whose teaching at Princeton has had less influence on the students than Maritain, and I'm not totally displeased...
Interviewed on NBC-TV's 'Meet the Press," Pusey said that the University was launching its fund drive to "meet basic needs," foremost among which were faculty salaries. He added that the financial position of the Harvard faculty was worse now than...