Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their Board of Overseers, not even the most malicious and persistent propaganda of doubt and of suspicion was able to subvert them. No graduate of Harvard could better represent the Board of Overseers and the alumni for whom it stands the Charles Wyzanski, a distinguished lawyer, one of the foremost judges of his time and an American who still believes in the great conception of intellectual freedom on which this Republic was founded. Charles Wyzanski's position on the issue raised by the Congressional investigators was stated eloquently when, speaking as President of the Board of Overseers, he charged...
...Richard Garnett actually lived in the British Museum, where he was Keeper of Printed Books. Father Edward, who climbed the museum roof as other boys climb trees, became one of Britain's most influential literary advisers. Mother Constance learned Russian to while away the time, soon became the foremost English translator of Russian literature. Her toughest assignment: War and Peace, from which she emerged half blind...
...visa denials has been embarrassing as well as costly to the United States. In his recent book, The Golden Door, a castigation of the McCarran-Walter act, J. Campbell Bruce reviews the story of Michael Polyani, and "eminent British chemist and social philosopher, long recognized as Britain's foremost anti-Communist scholar," Polyani was elected a chair of Social Philosophy at the University of Chicago for the academic year 1951-52. In January of 1951, he applied to the U.S. Consulate in Liverpool for an immigrant visa, and completed forms which included such questions as: "Where have you lived since...
Rouner's crew averages six feet, one inch and is made up from three seniors, two juniors and three sophomores who rowed on last spring's Yardling eight. Foremost among the former heavy men is senior Charlie Higgenson, who rowed for two years with varsity or J.V. heavy crews. He will be at five this afternoon. Keith Garland, Rouner's stroke, slipped into the 150 shell on the basis of the new ruling...
...woman suffragette in Iowa is more likely to have heard of the Radcliffe Women's Archives than most 'Cliffites. Little known in the college community, it is the foremost, and practically unique, collection on American Women and their contributions to history...