Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jaffe said that "In view of the record of the United Nations, it is questionable that such a plan could be negotiated. As long as all the nations put self-interest foremost, the program could be deterred by political maneuvers...
...Third--Allow all peoples of all nations to see that, the great powers of the earth . . . are interested in human aspiration first and foremost rather than in building up the armaments...
With Christmas vacation well on the way and the problem of avoiding the Harvard Square Santa Clauses foremost in the minds of may students, thoughts are liable to turn to home, where it is easier to avoid the Jolly Old Fellow, or to the balmy isle of Bermuda, where he is docked out in walking shorts...
...there is another, wider view of equality, held today by many of this country's foremost lawyers. It is one which makes a good deal of sense. It is the belief that the very act of segregation vitiates the superficial equality of facilities. Despite the talk about equality, a Negro child is treated as unequal by being told that he cannot attend school with white children, for the plain implication is that he is not good enough to go to school with them. If he is so marked, then he is not being treated equally under...
Occupants of the Jaguar stalled on a lonely Yorkshire road were grateful to the wiry, gray-haired farmer who had quickly repaired their broken distributor. Their thanks turned to amazement when they recognized the impromptu mechanic as England's foremost philosopher of art. For one of the paradoxes about Sir Herbert Read is his combination of a vast knowledge of practical things and the intellectual aloofness of the creative artist...