Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half horse and half griffin.* Last week came word of a proposed merger which would create a real-life business hybrid-part cow and part bus. The companies concerned, whose directors have already approved a stock swap, are ACF-Brill Motors Co., maker of buses and trackless trolleys, and Foremost Dairies, Inc., seller of milk, ice cream and other dairy products in the South and (through foreign subsidiaries) the Far East. For ACF-Brill, which just turned the profit corner last year, after three years of losses (TIME, April 7), the deal, if the stockholders approve, means accepting a subordinate...
...defeating Princeton impressively by two lengths without a sprint on Lake Carnegie Saturday afternoon, the varsity crew not only regained possession of the Compton Cup, but also proved itself to be one of the East's foremost contenders for an Olympic berth. Harvey Love's eight covered the mile and three-quarter course in 9:05.8, 13 seconds off the 1950 Compton Cup record set by Harvard. The Tigers had a 9:13.4 time, while Tech and Rutgers, the other two contestants, finished well behind in 9:24.6, and 9:55.6, respectively...
...highest in Waban natives early this morning, in the traditional battle for the class's first husband, foremost in the thoughts of every maiden filly entered. Every year just before the hoop classic word leaks out that groups of maidens have put their heads together to set up a fix, in which some girls will block while one girl rolls through to victory...
...most rewarding aspects of concentrating in Soc. Rel. is association with the department's faculty. Some of the leading social scientists in the country are on the staff. Chairman Talcott Parsons is probably America's foremost sociologist, and Samuel Stouffer, Henry Murray, Gordon Allport, and Clyde Kluckhohn are chief figures in world social science research...
Aside from the close contact with instructors, the greatest point in the department's favor is the excellence of its personel, and Michael Karpovich, Head of the Slavic Language Department, is the foremost Russian historian in the country...