Word: foremost
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While this explanation is simple enough (until you throw in leap years and such), the ramifications are manifold. Foremost is the delay of the Yale weekend to Thanksgiving vacation. This situation has arisen before: the last time by the calendar was 1961, then more recently in 1963 when the assassination of President Kennedy occasioned a postponement...
Harvard's heavyweight crew will race against its foremost American rival this weekend and also have a chance to avenge a stunning loss at last week's North American Championships...
...Located at 70 Charles Street, the building is a handsome brick one in the Federalist style; erected in 1807, it was designed by Asher Benjamin (1773-1845), who was responsible for the even more impressive Old West Church and several Beacon Hill houses as well, and was Boston's foremost architectural contemporary of the great Charles Bul-finch...
Studying the Milky Way. Foremost among the problem regions to be studied under optimum conditions for the first time is the center of the earth's own galaxy. That portion of the Milky Way is only partially visible in the Northern Hemisphere for a few hours each night, and then only during summer months. In the Southern Hemisphere, the center of the galaxy moves directly overhead six months of the year. Moreover, the closest galaxies to the Milky Way-the Large and Small Magellenic Clouds, more than 160,000 light-years away, can be seen only from the Southern...
...Angeles Builder R. A. Watt and Perma-Bilt Enterprises, a San Francisco area housebuilder, another 2,500 dwellings will go up. And Divco-Wayne Corp., which last month agreed to merge with Boise Cascade, does a $100 million-a-year business as one of the world's foremost makers of mobile homes and travel trailers. "We've been trying to get from timber-our starting point-down to the marketplace," says President Robert V. Hansberger...