Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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IRVING BERLIN is the world's foremost writer of popular songs and one of America's leading insomniacs. Fame, riches, marital happiness and honors from grateful governments have come to this slight, dark man of 63, but the one thing he lacks is sleep-to hear him tell it, anyway...
...Block Island plans were conceived as a practice project for the men in architectural planning and landscaping at the school. The Island has been on the decline for the past few decades as a resort, yet it has the potentiality to be one of the foremost summer havens in the East...
...pink-cheeked Kirsten Flagstad, a simple woman who says, "Always I wanted to be a private person," has had her fill. She has been singing opera for nearly 40 years. For nearly 20 of those years she has been the world's foremost Wagnerian soprano. She had postponed her retirement and capped her career by learning the role of Alcestis in English at 55. Now she was leaving the Met, after her 193rd performance, with a voice faintly fading but still incomparable for ringing power and eloquence...
With his staff Shapley has developed the foremost Graduate School of Astronomy in the country which can boast one-third of the nation's Ph.D.'s over the last twenty years. He has seen the number of Harvard-operated observatories increased from two to eight. His staff has invaded the continent of Africa. He has increased the number of working personnel four times over what it was when he came to Harvard in 1921. He has extended the Department's areas of research into the most numerous and varied phases of current inquiries...
...affectionate biography written ten years ago and now republished, Edmund Blunden, himself a minor Georgian poet, rates Poet Hardy almost as high as Novelist Hardy. With Blunden's book comes another book, a work of scholarly piety by Colby Professor Carl Weber, possib'y today's foremost Hardy scholar. In Hardy and the Lady from Madison Square, Weber unearths the story of Rebekah Owen, a New York woman who was smitten by Hardy's books, visited England, where she was apparently smitten by Hardy himself. After some mild tea-drinking and book-autographing plus years...