Word: foremost
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...hierarchy of battle victories is highly important to a writer. Foremost, of course, is the proposition that Americans win all wars and most skirmishes. This dictum also applies to Indians, unless pitted against real, government-type Americans. In the latter case, the Indians are pretty sneaky about fighting, almost always attacking the women and children hidden in the wagons. Naturally this deprives the wily natives of their benefits as citizens...
...quiet way, he had not only won over his faculty, he had also emerged, by virtue of his office and personality, as the eloquent defender of an ancient tradition. The university he heads, across the Charles from Boston in Cambridge, is the nation's oldest and foremost place of learning. Harvard is the direct descendant of the British college, heir apparent to the German university, an American mixture of both. It was Harvard that, in 1636, transplanted the seeds of liberal learning to the New World, and it has been Harvard more than any other institution that has nourished...
...editor of the arts magazine Hound & Horn, author of a rash first novel and a book of poetry, and teetering on the edge of balletomania. His dream: to found a truly American ballet company. There was nothing for it but to get the world's foremost Russian choreographer to spark it. Balanchine came...
When the passenger (not dressed in special clothing) is lying on the sled-head foremost-he can take only seven Gs for Moth of a second without being damaged. If he is lying feet foremost, he can stand as much as 32 Gs because the feet can take more impact than the head. When his body is at right angles to the motion of the sled, he can survive even more...
Last week, 78 years after his death, old Pierre was still teaching. The great publishing house he founded had just put out a supplement to its six-volume Larousse du XXe Siècle, and by doing so, it had brought up to date France's foremost dictionary-encyclopedia. Today the Larousse books are the final popular arbiters for French words: nine out of ten Frenchmen know them, and eight out of ten families own either the one-volume Petit Larousse (1,800 pages, 70,000 words and articles), the two-volume Nouveau Larousse Universel (2,176 pages...