Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...multi-million dollar Defense Department grant awarded last year to Harvard and MIT will make Cambridge New England's foremost center for research on surface materials, scientists said this week...
During his life, Baker, who received his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, was one of Cornell's foremost benefactors...
...PRACTICAL purposes, students and alumni do not entertain ideas of dominating proceedings of the faculties of requiring approval for regular administrative decisions. To suggest such broad powers is absurd. But this country's foremost intellectual community deserves to be treated, as...well...an intellectual community. As the community considers the ideas and concepts of the modern world it ought to have the ability to consider such concepts as they relate to the University it sponsors. The ethics of investments, policies on unionization, treatment of junior faculty, the joint pressures of teaching and research and relations with the Cambridge community...
...picture first and foremost, a series of pictures that lodge in the mind with other indelible images of war. The prop wash from a landing helicopter blows the tarpaulins off three bodies, their shrouds torn off, their makeshift graves defiled. In the village, after the slaughter, the soldiers carry Vietnamese children on their shoulders -- G.I. Joes, big brothers to the kids whose village they have just destroyed -- and the soldier who bashed a man's head takes a tourist snapshot of the holocaust. More than any other film, Platoon gives the sense -- all five senses -- of fighting in Viet...
...NAMES ARE SIMILAR: Crimson and Crimson Tide. Toss out the detergent and they are the same. By reputation, the two are a pair of the nation's foremost institutions--in the classroom it's Harvard, on the gridiron Alabama...