Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Supreme Court; 2) To give a "quiet burial" to the Dixon-Yates private power contract, which the Democrats have made a partisan issue. The point is, as the President forecast, that if the Democrats were invested with responsibility for the 84th Congress, they would put their partisan considerations foremost. It is only because the Senate returned before Jan. 3, 1955 that the process has begun so early...
...fervently distilling such experiences in her paintings, Emily Carr made her outwardly shabby life an inner triumph. By the time of her death in 1945 she ranked among the foremost painters of the Western Hemisphere. But clearly for her the prize was in the struggle and not in success. For her the Indian world mattered a lot more than the art world...
...late Dr. Harvey Cushing, the foremost brain surgeon of his era, declined an invitation to join the faculty of the Yale Medical School on the grounds that its hospital was "no damn good." Five years later Cushing came to Harvard as Professor of Surgery and remained in that post until 1932, when he reached Harvard's retirement age of 62. When Dr. Thomas F. Fulton, Professor of Physiology at the Yale Medical School, heard of his retirement, he rushed to Boston to offer him a professorship in Neurology at Yale. Cushing immediately accepted...
...recognized locally but are unknown elsewhere, and who are important enough to introduce to TIME readers. When Eliot was traveling in Spain in 1952, he met Francisco Cossio who had never had an exhibition in the U.S. but was acclaimed at home as one of Spain's foremost contemporaries. TIME'S story on Cossio (Sept. 21, 1953) was accompanied by a full-page color reproduction of his mural of St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross. An example of a new artist is Vienna-born Artist Henry Koerner (now a U.S. citizen), first spotted...
...means invincible as many seem to think, and if the team goes into the game with a fixed determination to win and not in a fainthearted spirit, there are good grounds that the squad may wrest a hard-contested victory from an Academy which now holds the foremost place in football among the preparatory schools of New England...