Word: utmost
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took nearly all I had") in the belief that the independent work of great scholars was the soul of a great university. He patterned the society after fellowships offered in England and France. Said Lowell: "Productive scholarship is the shyest of all flowers. American universities must do their utmost to cultivate it, by planting the best seed, letting the sun shine upon...
...Massie and The 900 Days, Harrison Salisbury's account of the World War II siege of Leningrad. Last February, Biggs' weekly stock-market analysis included a quote from British Philosopher John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: "He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss...
Harper's Foundation President Rick MacArthur nonetheless praised Kinsley and said the board was paying his tenure the utmost compliment. "As his successor," said MacArthur, "we want another independent, unconventional thinker...
...analysts, for a three-day Atlantic Conference '83 in Hamburg, West Germany. Explains Editor-in-Chief Henry Grunwald, who led TIME'S delegation of 26 editors, writers and correspondents: "We all know that the survival and strength of the Atlantic Alliance, military, political, economic, are of the utmost importance to world peace. We wanted to find some way to focus on these issues, draw new insights and offer some possible solutions...
...theirs is a sensible vision. The authors have taken extraordinary care in analyzing whether particular weapons or strategic policies are stabilizing or destabilizing under certain circumstances. Humanity, they observe, "must live with [nuclear weapons] carefully, vigilantly, gingerly, always displaying the utmost caution." Living With Nuclear Weapons bespeaks much the same prudent attention to detail that its authors would like to see among American policy makers...