Word: uppermost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tariff discussions all have been proposed, all have been acclaimed by millions and all have spent time and wasted money with little to show for it. In short the nations of the world have talked, but few have acted in concert or with the aim of peace or concord uppermost in their respective and devious minds...
Iron Men (by Francis Gallagher; Norman Bel Geddes, producer) presents a scene never before approximated for verisimilitude in the theatre-the uppermost steel skeleton of a skyscraper under construction. Not content with that, Designer-Producer Bel Geddes has put his scene into operation. A giant crane looming up into the flies brings up six or seven big I-beams which are bolted into place before the eyes of the audience. In robust defiance of the "pusher" (man with the blueprints), four steelworkers ride on the ball attached to the crane-hook. Only flaws in this extraordinary feat of artistic naturalism...
From a showboat at the Great Lakes Exposition in Cleveland one night last week the three presidents of the country's three biggest steel companies successively addressed the nation. Studiously they avoided any reference to the subject uppermost in their minds-the coming battle over unionization of the steel industry...
...soil (TIME, Sept. 2, 1935). Early last June disillusioned Bill Bullitt returned to the U. S. At the Patrick Henry Bicentennial celebration in Hanover County, Va. in July, appearing as the President's representative but with every listener keenly aware that the subject of Russia had long been uppermost in his mind, he declared...
...high-frequency reception over that half of the world lighted by the sun improved instead of faltering. Indeed by Oct. 21-23 it was the best the Bureau had ever observed. Next day-the crucial day-reception fell off sharply by half, and the expected fading occurred. Simultaneously the uppermost main layer of the ionosphere (radio-reflecting region of electrified air) rose from 155 mi. to a record height...