Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eyes of the British, eccentricity often looks like genius. In his own time (1731-1802), Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles, was renowned not only as Britain's foremost physician but as a poet, scientist, inventor and conversationalist of formidable talent. He had, said Coleridge, "a greater range of knowledge than any other man in Europe," and King George III begged him to come to London as the royal physician (he refused, on the ground that he preferred to remain in Lichfield). The age's other great eccentric, Samuel Johnson, dismissed him as a provincial from an "intellectually barren...
Jose Quintero, who is rightly regarded as the foremost recreator of O'Neill since the War, has directed this production. It is clear that Quintero has a valid conception, but there is more in the work than he has made apparent. Though the play is long, he has retained all twelve scenes of the text and then made internal cuts-somewhat excessively...
...anticipated, St. Lawrence's C.B. Vaughn swept the slalom, giant slalom, and alpine combined. Vaughn, one of the foremost non-Olymipic skiers in the East, currently holds the world's skiing speed record at 106 miles per hour...
Always in the Ring. Having thus denounced his foremost announced rival, Rockefeller could feel complete. Earlier in the week, before going to Washington to speak to a convention of Young Republicans, he had had some scornful words about an unannounced opponent. Richard Nixon, he said sarcastically, is "lurking in the wings ready to make the supreme sacrifice...
...Meehan will be pitted against Canada's Bill Crothers, one of the foremost milers in the world, according to Track Coach Bill McCurdy, who feels the Canadian is sure to win the race. Nevertheless, he called Meehan "one of the finest representatives from Harvard in this type of event in years...