Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shahn, one of America's foremost painters, will deliver the first of the 1956-57 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures tonight at 8:30 in New Lecture Hall. Three of the series of talks, entitled "Idea and Image," will be given this fall, with three more scheduled for the spring...
...best described by the fact that he has held top jobs under both King Farouk and President Nasser, leaned over the horseshoe table and started to talk. First, bald Mahmoud Fawzi recited in his soft voice Egypt's familiar grievances against the French and British. Then he purred: "Foremost in importance [is] a system of cooperation between the Egyptian authority operating the Suez canal and the users of the canal." When the foreign ministers around the table heard that word "cooperation," they had their answer...
Died. Msgr. Lorenzo Perosi, 83, longtime (since 1898) director of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel Choir, and foremost Italian composer of sacred music, who wrote 14 oratorios (most famous: The Resurrection) and 30 Masses, destroyed much of his work in despair during a mental breakdown (1922); in Vatican City...
...annual discussion of the latest techniques and trickeries of insurance legalistics. Their presence was one more reminder of how successful S.M.U.'s South western Legal Center has been in realizing the goal that Dean Robert Gerald Storey set for it five years ago: to become one of the foremost legal laboratories in the U.S. (TIME, April...
...entered it. According to various Tudors, Richard spent a cagey two years in his mother's womb, waiting for the appearance of "a hostile star'' that would make him a proper "Antichrist." When at last he made his delayed entry (in 1452), he did so feet foremost, with a set of teeth, and black hair flowing down to his deformed shoulders. On his face was a "malicious, wrathful, envious" expression...