Word: pre
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Charles William Eliot: In his death he proved his right to the title given him by Mr. Root, "the first citizen of the country out of public office." He had not achieved this by compromise. The Manchester Guardian, with some detachment, is surprised that Dr. Eliot won such a pre-eminent position in American national life without displaying more of "the hustling temper of modern America. He had not even, like his successor at Harvard, and like the heads of Yale and Princeton, made a reputation as a specialist in political science." But he had no need to do either...
Freight Rates. "The Department of Agriculture's index of freight rates indicates that they are still 58% higher than before the War. It is instructive to compare this figure with the index for farm commodity prices, which in September stood at only 34% above the pre-War level. . . . These freight costs are large relatively as well as absolutely. They place the American farmer at a disadvantage of from four to ten cents a bushel in comparison with the freight costs of his competitors in Canada and Argentina...
...Manhattan the diamond buying public instantly reacted to last week's news, causing a slump of two-thirds in the usual pre-Christmas diamond trade. Alarmed, the great Fifth Avenue jewelers issued a joint statement: "The price of diamonds will continue upward, as it has for 30 years. . . . The interview quoted from South Africa was obviously inspired for political purposes. . . . The London Diamond Trust has itself bought up most of the independently mined diamonds, and will undoubtedly continue to keep prices...
...classroom, at fashionable three o'clock on Thursdays, the ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Editress Edna Woolman Chase and Miss Caroline Duer of the Vogue staff were announced as assistant lecturers, making it clearer than ever that of all fashion publications, the Nastian was held pre-eminent by New York University authorities. Problems and topics to be treated by Publisher Nast and his assistants, with demonstrations by suitable models: the heavy woman, the elderly woman, good taste in dress, buying and selling fashions, the sartorial education of the young, origins of men's fashions...
...dead hand of the past lies heavy upon our institutions. The pre-eminence of Latin survives from the trivium; and the pre-eminence of mathematics is our inheritance from the quadrivium of the Middle Ages. Far stronger, however, than the priorities of the classics and mathematics, are are traditional methods of instruction and of college life...