Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Court Building, does his work. The apartment, like the Cape Cod cottage where the Justice still spends his summers, has been a meeting place at one time or another for a generous quorum of most of the ablest younger legal minds in the U. S. There Justice Brandeis will this week celebrate his 81st birthday in the assurance that the next years in his grand-scale life may still be the greatest...
Though Philip Murray and George Harrison are two of the ablest labor negotiators in the land, their assignment was nearly superhuman. They strained for cordiality, addressed each other as "George" and "Phil." They posed reluctantly for newsreel cameramen shaking hands-without sound effects. Mustering a sour smile, Phil Murray observed: "This will look pretty fishy." And George Harrison answered: "Yes, when they see this the rank & file will decide here's where we sold them down the river...
...young American men of military age. We feel that America, by virtue of her unprecedented strength and heterogeneous population, occupies a highly strategic position in the international situation, and that our program will appeal to the practical idealism of the nation. We hope to associate our selves with the ablest young men of our age in every state of the Union. In spite of great difficulties, financial and otherwise, we have made definite progress and have been able to arrange for office facilities in room 605, 75 West 45th Street, New York City. Anyone desiring information about the project...
Sitting on the bench, Duke's Coach Wallace Wade had an agonizing afternoon. He had to watch his team being whipsawed by the kind of inspired passing attack that is apt to demoralize the ablest of teams, and he was not used to the excitement of winning games by one-point margins. Only once before in his 19-year coaching career had that happened to him, on an historic occasion in 1926 when his Alabama team beat the University of Washington in the Rose Bowl by the exact score of last week...
...begging and praying the Imperial Government not to go off half-cocked and invade Shantung but be just a little patient and win much more cheaply by means of bribes. Rumors that Shantung's Han recently conferred in Tsinan with Japanese Lieut.-General Kenji Doihara, Tokyo's ablest bribe artist in dealing with Chinese, were taken seriously enough at Nanking, China's capital, for a government spokesman to angrily exclaim last week: "If Doihara came there he ought to have been locked up in jail...