Word: abler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...approaching tornado. A made-over third baseman whom Manager Bill McKechnie had bought from the Phillies last summer, Pitcher Walters had a natural sinker (the reason he flopped as an infielder) and miracle Manager McKechnie had taught him some tricks of the trade; but the Reds had much abler pitchers in Johnny Vander Meer, Lee Grissom, Paul Derringer...
...bloody bout between Bolivia and Paraguay. Actually the favorable opportunity was created not in the jungles of the Chaco but in the long corridors of the U. S. State Department. Part of it was the long planning of Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles, one of the abler gentlemen in Latin-American diplomacy. More of it was a wholly new era of U. S.-Latin-American relations resulting from Cordell Hull's inability to be anything but a kindly judge from Tennessee. The rest of it was Franklin Roosevelt...
...Noble Kizer, currently coach at Purdue. Last Saturday, in the week's big game, Purdue's strength was a backfield whose average progress this season has been seven yards per play and two of whose members, John Drake and Cecil Isbell, according to Coach Kizer, were abler than any of the "Four Horsemen." Fordham's strength was a line nicknamed the "Seven Blocks of Granite," who had permitted their goal to be crossed only twice this year and who, according to Coach Crowley, were even stronger than the "Seven Mules...
...York. Because he had shown himself an even abler New York vote-getter than Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, Herbert Henry Lehman, who urgently desired to return to his banking business, was drafted by the Democratic National Convention and the President himself to run for a third term as Governor. That sacrifice was proved wholly unnecessary when Governor Lehman, though winning handily, ran over 300,000 votes behind his nation-sweeping White House friend...
...catch on, to kindle the nation's enthusiasm. After the strong beginning supplied by his pre-convention buildup, his bold convention telegram and his overwhelming nomination. Nominee Landon's first campaign tour had been accompanied by a Republican slump. Meanwhile John Hamilton and Frank Knox, both abler orators than the nominee, had been drumming into the country's head the idea that Republicans planned to throw out the New Deal bag & baggage, the baby with the bath. Also meanwhile, Franklin Roosevelt, resting the New Deal's case on its popular benefits, its aspirations and the undeniable...