Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Would girls in ROTC courses cause a breach in military atmosphere? The colonel didn't think so. "I always tell my boys to forget the fact that I'm wearing a military uniform. This is first and foremost an intellectual exercise, not just a military program...
...Palmer Dixon '25, long one of the foremost supporters of squash and tennis at Harvard, has given $140,000 to the Program for Harvard College to be used mainly to renovate the University Squash Courts on Linden Street. When the renovating process is completed, the varsity squash team will use these courts as its home base during the season...
MISTRESS TO AN AGE, by J. Christopher Herold. Germaine de Staël back again in a first-rate biography of the woman who rode the French Revolution like a balky horse, managed, without beauty or other feminine graces, to capture as lovers many of the foremost men of her day. Napoleon said no, and that may have been his major mistake...
When the best director on Broadway (Elia Kazan for those in doubt), one of the foremost dramatic actors in America, (Pat Hingle) and one of the the finest living poets conspire to produce a play, you are bound to have a masterpiece. And that's what Archibald MacLeish's J.B. is, one of the most distinguished dramatic triumphs of the modern theatre...
...tour along North Western's tracks. He learned that what was needed was radical modernization. He chopped the North Western's managerial deadwood, hired bright young railroad pros. He brought in modern bookkeeping machines and mechanized track-laying equipment, completely dieselized the line. He also became the foremost critic of union featherbedding in rails, trimmed his own payrolls from 26,300 to 18,500-but was a shrewd enough labor negotiator to avoid a full-scale strike...