Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, from land that was once a forest, 46 buildings have sprung up on the Houston campus, including colleges of law, business, education, engineering, pharmacy and nursing. Over it all, Hugh Cullen keeps a fatherly eye. As chairman of the Board of Regents, as well as Houston's foremost angel, he never interferes with academic policy, does not even seem to care whether Houston has a big football team. At 70, he has only one plan for the university: "I'd like to give quite a few more millions to it," says...
Erwin Raisz, one of the nation's foremost cartographers and until Monday Curator of Maps at the Institute of Geographic Exploration, is a remarkably cheerful man for one whose life work has just been voted out from under him by the President and Fellows of Harvard University. He is also a remarkably philosophical man who finds no cause for bitterness in the fact that the cartography division chairman of the American Association of Geographers is very abruptly and very obviously jobless...
Drab Living. The six revolutionary universities are at Peking, Nanking, Sian, Canton, Hankow and Kweiyang. Foremost among them is the North China Revolutionary University, located in an army barracks in Peking's western suburb. Last week I talked to a recent graduate who had just made his escape into Hong Kong...
...foremost problem that interviewers had to surmount was the scope and method of the interview itself. This was solved by giving four separate interviews to allow leeway for personal opinions, bias, and other psychological intrusions...
Since the death of Scribner's Maxwell Perkins, many people considered Cameron the foremost U.S. book editor. But Cameron had never been bashful about his politics, and Schlesinger had no trouble discovering that Cameron belonged to many pro-Communist organizations...