Word: abler
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...People don't give a damn what the average Senator or Congressman says. The reason they don't care is that they know what you hear in Congress is 99% tripe, ignorance and demagoguery and not to be relied on." Protector of The Press. One of the abler men in Congress last week poured out the typical feelings of the better type of Congressmen: "You just can't haul off and indict Congress in general. You say this Congress is an all-time low. Well, I can cite you as good men in this Congress...
...much effort, skill and good management with a $5,000 investment. Another man, less able and less hardworking, may have got a similar business going only after sinking $10,000 into it. Both may now make equal profits; but under a proposal like Henry Morgenthau's, the abler, harder-working man would be allowed to keep only half as much profit as his less competent competitor...
...trying to bull its way through trouble, the Second had violated another Pattonism. Meeting abler anti-tank tactics from the 27th and 30th than it had expected, it had lost many tanks. D.S.C.Man Patton had warned them of the danger of 75s along the roadside. Said he (amended version): "Never engage in a scenting match with a skunk." The Second, relying on its own strength, had failed to use its infantry, and the failure had been expensive. It had also failed to coordinate its work with its allied Fifth Division, and been cited by the umpires for the failure...
...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...
...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...