Word: abler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other words, assembling a great mass of observed facts and stirring them around until a connecting theory emerges does not work. Speculation and intuition are supremely necessary. What sets Dr. Einstein apart is the quality of his intuition. There have been abler mathematicians than he. But from a very few observations-the constancy of light's speed in space and the equivalence of gravitational mass and inertia-he divined how the cosmos was made. He did not, like Newton, invent mathematics to describe it but borrowed the mathematics of Riemann, Fitzgerald, Lorentz and Minkowski...
...abler musician than most opera singers, she has a mother who now dabbles in concert management in New York, a sister who teaches singing, a husband, Frank Chapman Jr., son of the American Museum of Natural History's famed ornithologist, who took up singing after he resigned from the editorial staff of Doubleday, Doran, met Gladys Swarthout in an opera house at Florence. She was born on Christmas day in 1904, likes to cook kidneys en brochette, plays golf, skis. Her East End Avenue apartment is distinguished by pearl-grey walls, a tea service presented to Mr. Chapman...
Expert Inquisition. The first thing that Senator Black proceeded to prove was that he was an abler headlinemaker than his House rival. Mr. Hopson before any committee is a witness expert at avoiding damaging admissions, at amplifying his answers into attacks upon his opponents. Nonetheless, Senator Black promptly began producing from his lips facts worthy of headlines at least bigger than those that Representative O'Connor had been able to evoke...
...President of the United States and Mrs. Herbert Hoover received 98-lb. King Prajadhipok and 115-lb. Queen Rambai Barni (TIME, May 4, 1931), Siam was the world's last country in which the Sovereign remained absolute. The Siamese Cabinet consisted chiefly of prolific Rama V's abler sons, and from that polygamous panel of 134 His Majesty had no difficulty in drawing really able Princes. To them King Prajadhipok once sternly declared: "In my own family the Princes who have no capacity and no ability have nothing to do with the government service. I, therefore, take...
...cabbages grow, carrying a huge spoon across a rocky mountain, all painted in meticulous mid-Victorian detail. Month ago a U.S. surrealist named Peter Blume won first prize ($1,500) at the Carnegie International Exhibition in Pittsburgh with his South of Scranton (TIME, Oct. 29). Last week a still abler Parisian surrealist named Salvador Dali arrived in Manhattan with a load of minutely painted canvases to bewilder the eye of logic...