Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Court bill if it could be brought to a vote, but his margin was slim, depending heavily on freshmen Senators elected last autumn. Although he claimed upwards of 50 out of 96 Senators as supporters, the Democrats who led the 16 minority Republicans in opposition included some of the ablest, most experienced members of the Democratic ranks. They included many who had been expected to find reason for swinging back to the Administration's side on the compromise bill, such as Connally of Texas, Bankhead of Alabama, the President's personal friend, Radcliffe of Maryland. Although many...
...singles, men's, women's and mixed doubles) are played simultaneously before well-mannered, tennis-wise London crowds who stand in queues all night for tickets, drink tea and ginger beer under the old green stands between matches. Last week, 128 of the world's ablest tennists were entered in the men's singles. Record crowds watched the field narrow down to a final in which Budge and von Cramm played each other for the "world's championship" which England's Fred Perry abdicated last winter by turning professional...
...their foreign policy to the apron strings of Downing Street. Last week French fiscal policy had been hitched, temporarily at least, to the apron strings of the Old Lady of Thread-needle Street, pending the arrival of Finance Minister Georges Bonnet. This nimble native of Dordogne, by far the ablest player of Basque pelota in the new Cabinet, will have his work cut out for him to get French finances in shape, but he seemed certain of broad cooperation. Under one of France's new social decrees drafted by Leon Blum and published last week by the Chautemps Cabinet...
...well as rich. He bargained the late John Roll McLean down from $360,000 to $180,000 for his wobbly Morning Journal and then proceeded to spend $7,500,000 combatting fiery Joseph Pulitzer's World on its own ground. He boldly bought away Pulitzer's ablest men, including Arthur Brisbane and Morrill Goddard, the genius who gave him the American Weekly. He made the Spanish-American War his personal affair for the Journal'?, sake. The transition of the old Journal into the American, effected in three steps between 1901 and 1903, followed an excess of boldness...
...languish-after the death of the most celebrated anti-evolutionist. Teacher Scopes was fined $100 (later remitted) and left Tennessee;* The Tennessee anti-evolution law still stands. Restrictive laws are also on the statute books of Mississippi an Arkansas. Dr. Oscar Riddle of the Carnegie Institution, one of the ablest biologists in the U. S., charges that there is even more pussyfooting in present-day textbooks than there was three decades...