Word: abler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...larger centers where the rewards are greatest. And this is bound to apply in some degree to education of journalists, even those who have become somewhat established in non-metropolitan areas before receiving Nieman Fellowships. It may be pointed out that Nieman Fellows are generally of an age when abler and more ambitions men have chances to move. It is inevitable that some men are going to take those chances; they would whether or not they became Nieman Fellows. The Fellowship marks them out and increases the prospect of better offers, but I should like to point out how slight...
...such a scheme would work, no one could say. Henry Wallace, on his record, was an abler administrator than the President. Certainly he knew more law, more about finance, farming and business than the President. Without Franklin Roosevelt's ability to sway the masses, he was nevertheless more effective, man to man, with Senators, Congressmen and just plain people. Earthy, heavily humorous, direct, he inspired admiration but neither idolatrous devotion nor awe. And he had one surpassing quality that Mr. Roosevelt did not have: he was not tolerant of incompetence. No one who was merely loyal worked in Wallace...
...George Abbott's faithful reconstruction of his gay stage hit of last season about football and females in a Southwestern college. With the pace of a jack rabbit it bounds from song to dance to comedy to song, offers too short glimpses of some of Hollywood's abler and less familiar talent...
...when "Judge" Smith got his committee hearings under way last December, New Dealers stopped smiling. Wily Mr. Smith, not pretending to be a Bob La Follette or Tom Walsh, had his committee sit mostly as spectators, while a far abler inquisitor, cobra-cold Edmund Toland, dredged from NLRB's messy affairs one damaging fact after another. Infinitely painstaking, Mr. Toland in ten weeks' hearings wove a garish tapestry of the evidence, showed Board bias, incompetence, extra-legal activities...