Word: foremost
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...Buswell line age. James I was president of Wheaton College in Illinois; James II was a Presbyterian missionary; James III is a professor of anthropology at St. Louis University. When Young James's parents moved from Wheaton to New York, he studied with Ivan Galamian-America's foremost violin teacher-whose students included his "competition" and "closest colleagues," Itzhak, Pinchas and Young...
...their cheerful forecasts for a summer surge in the U.S. economy, Washington policymakers have counted on a strong rebound by the housing industry-the foremost victim of last year's tight money. Though housing has clearly begun to climb back from its worst slump in almost a decade, the revival so far has been a bit sluggish. Last week the Commerce Department reported that March housing starts showed a mere 1.7% gain from their February doldrums, to an annual rate of 1,171,000 new houses and apartments. At that pace, the industry was barely bettering its performance during...
...last week did one of Red China's foremost musicians describe the treatment meted out to him by Mao Tse-tung's Red Guards. What made the description more remarkable was that it was made on American soil, in Manhattan, by one of the few escapees from Red China to reach the U.S. He is Ma Ssu-tsung, 54, the president of Red China's Central Academy of Music, the vice president of the Union of Chinese Musicians and a deputy to the National People's Congress...
Died. Emil Frei Jr., 71, one of the foremost U.S. artists in stained glass, who took over his father's glass firm to promote a revival of an art that had waned since its flowering in the Middle Ages, combining richly colored abstract forms and contemporary symbolism, thus creating effects no other medium can achieve; after a long heart illness; in Kirkwood...
...rock festivals, art galleries and department-store sales are now advertised in posters and layouts done in a style that is beginning to be called Nouveau Frisco. Unmistakably a vapor from the seething psychedelic dreamland of The Haight-Ashbury district (TIME, March 17), Nouveau Frisco currently has as its foremost practitioner Robert Wesley Wilson...