Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of these early bunglings, the library did manage to survive. But it did not achieve its present position as the foremost university library in the U.S. without its share of crises. No man knows this better than 66-year-old Keyes (rhymes with skies) DeWitt Metcalf, who for 18 years has been-Harvard's chief librarian. Last week, as he got set to retire, Metcalf could report with as much authority as any man alive just what it means to run a great empire of books...
Said Darby, who has visited just about every state in the Union on presidential tours: "I consider myself one of the country's foremost authorities on airports, railroad stations, hotel lobbies and auditoriums. It will be nice to learn what surrounds these things in the Midwestern states...
...since the Ann Arbor school was modeled upon the universities of the East, its flavor and purpose were bound to differ from those of M.S.U. While Ann Arbor attracted such scholars as Philosopher John Dewey and Historian Andrew D. White, later president of Cornell, East Lansing's foremost teachers were men who spent as much time helping farmers as lecturing to students. William J. Beal unlocked some of the secrets of hybrid corn; Liberty Hyde Bailey began the career that was to make him one of the foremost U.S. horticulturists. Entomologist Albert Cook developed a kerosene emulsion that became...
Cincinnati's respected Dr. Albert Sabin (TIME, May 23), long the foremost critic of vaccines made (like Salk's) of inactivated virus, urged that both production and inoculation be stopped until the vaccine can be made consistently safe.* He was supported by men of impressive professional caliber: Nobel Prizewinner John F. Enders of Boston's Children's Medical Center and Dr. William McD. Hammon, an epidemiologist who rubs elbows with Dr. Salk at the University of Pittsburgh...
...Yellow Paper. Friendly, greying Dr. Palmquist went to Wilshire in 1947, and "only asked them to let me build the kind of church I would have liked to belong to when I was in the advertising business." This meant hiring "the country's foremost Bach organist" and a full-time drama coach (six plays a year), instituting a physical education program, a weekday nursery, a children's church, a Sunday school for handicapped children, a staff psychologist and a full-time "cateress." On the side, Pastor Palmquist served on 23 different Los Angeles committees during his eight years...