Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fulfill its world role, the U.S. has to maintain a high level of business stability and prosperity at home. Despite some year-end talk of a late 1953 recession, most businessmen are bullish. Said one of the South's foremost bankers, Chairman John A. Sibley of Atlanta's Trust Co. of Georgia: "Businessmen have more confidence in the future than they have had in a generation. They will be willing to take more risks with the possibility of earning better returns." Arms-spending is still on the rise, and when it reaches its peak in 1953, it will...
Million Dollar Mermaid (MGM) is a splashy musical that casts Cinemermaid Esther Williams as Annette Kellerman, the foremost amphibian attraction of the early 1900s. The picture takes Annette, who is described as "half woman and half fish," from Sydney, Australia to London, where she makes a much publicized 26-mile swim down the Thames; then to the New York Hippodrome, where she is billed as a diving Venus in tank extravaganzas; and finally to Hollywood, where she is badly injured during the filming of an underwater picture. For romance, there is a conventional (and fictional) triangle involving the Hippodrome...
Fortunately, the rough end of the schedule does not come until February, when the wrestlers must successively face six of the East's foremost powers: Army, Brown, Princeton, Springfield, Columbia and Yale. Until then, Pickett must whip his line-up into shape and overcome the handicap of inexperience against Boston University, Amherst, Tufts and Williams...
Igor Youskevitch took up dancing at the age of twenty-four and, within a decade, has become the foremost classical ballet artist in this country. His double pirouettes in the Pas de Deux from The Nutcracker were so brilliant and perfect that he appeared suspended above the stage. And his control and grace in slower movements compare only with Andre Eglevsky of City Center...
...restitution. Not only the entire German people, but amongst them especially the German youth realize that this cannot merely remain a matter of restitution in terms of large sums of money, but that in order to achieve a real reconciliation with the Jewish people the practical deed was the foremost to be considered. In other words: what matters is whether there is a sincere change of heart in the attitude of the German people, and I am happy to be able to report that there is, "A growing hate, especially for the United States" is quite out of the question...