Its pioneering work continues today on the World Wide Web, as Britannica has become the first and pre-eminent on-line reference publisher on the Internet.
Still, it has been a minor nightmare of a summer for Nadal, pre-eminent on clay yet losing five times on the European dirt, with Djokovic rubbing it in at Roland Garros in the quarter-finals.
Former President Jimmy Carter, whom Mr. Kennedy challenged in the Democratic primaries in 1980 and denounced as a "clone of Ronald Reagan," said Mr. Kennedy had been "pre-eminent" on Capitol Hill.
On May 7, Andrew Robinson, eminent scholar on Ray wrote to me in an email: "Here in London, the National Film Theatre is going to show all of Satyajit Ray's films in August-October 2013 -- the first time since 2002".
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, a studious, introverted former Army Ranger, is one of the Democratic Party's eminent voices on military affairs.
Later on, eminent musicians visited the Tolstoy homes in the country and in Moscow - and some performed there.
Click here to view video Every list of eminent moustaches (on TV or otherwise) always begins or ends with one man: former Navy Seal turned Hawaiian housesitter Thomas Magnum.
In 2015, he chaired an OSCE-mandated "Panel of Eminent Persons on European Security as a Common Project" tasked with providing advice on reconsolidating European security.
But some of the most eminent are on the backbenches.
