Word: uppermost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...esteemed contemporary recently viewed the House Plan at Harvard as meaning nothing more than "added paternalism and increased floor space." There are, no doubt, many who would be pleased to construe the experiment as simply as that, yet the fact remains there are several questions which are uppermost and will not be settled until the scheme has a reality...
...Uppermost in the minds of spectators at the Women's National Tennis Tournament at Forest Hills, L. I., last week was the question: Who will be the other finalist? Perhaps sure-finalist Helen Wills herself thought she knew when she said, "Sarah Palfrey ... is the best young prospect in the tournament...
...thoughts that are uppermost in the minds of the public are not whether this country shall sell arms to Mexico or enter the World Court. Instead, filled with the spirit of human kinship, they prefer to read the accounts of astute newspaper men who have bribed the White House cook to discover if the President prefers two or three minute eggs. It is their desire to know if the Hoovers intend to keep dogs or cats, not whether there are going to be any further developments in the disarmament situation. The great question is, will President Hoover look well...
...combined Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, it was hoped that the ends of democracy, self-determination, and all the other idealistic phrases current at the time had been served with a finality that would leave everyone happy. But unfortunately the Serbs, who happened to find themselves the uppermost of the three in the person of the king, have had so much trouble convincing the other members to the agreement of their good fortune that it has just been found necessary to declare a dictatorship, and dispense with parliamentary forms entirely...
...more than his former dose of pomposity. But be that as it may, his music is A1. If you like a good slow beat, suddenly broken up by Tiger Rag or such. Ted Lewis is the man to give it to you. Emphasis on the brass has always been uppermost, both in the band and in Lewis' personality...