Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always been a question in Paris whether the Red Army was good enough to make the present Franco-Soviet military alliance a worthwhile check to Germany-the eternal enemy. If the news from Moscow means that the Red Army has been immensely weakened by execution of its ablest leaders-and such in French General Staff headquarters was the opinion last week-then Paris must think somewhat of conciliating Berlin, and it would have been suicidal to yield to Communist demands that Premier Blum bestir himself to help the Spanish Popular Front. Last week for the first time since the World...
...less publicized than Pitcher Dean, long, lean, left-handed Carl Hubbell of the New York Giants has a far higher rating for efficiency. Most startling of the many pitching statistics that prove Hubbell the ablest member of his profession currently performing was his record, started last July, of winning 24 league games in a row. Closest approach to this record was made in 1911-12 by Rube Marquard who won 20 straight games...
...irate Joe Starnes of Guntersville, Ala. exclaimed last week upon the floor: "Two weeks ago he had the power to override one of the ablest members of the House of Representatives and his subcommittee-I refer to the gentleman from Virginia [Clifton Alexander Woodrum]. A week ago, according to the press, he came on the Hill and held a meeting in the office of the majority whip of the House, and yesterday he entered into the sanctum sanctorum, the office of the majority leader of this House, or the holy of holies. That is what the members of the House...
Hardest tournament in the world to win -composed, after the qualifying rounds, of 18-and 36-hole matches between the ablest golf professionals in the U. S.-the Professional Golfers Association Championship at Pittsburgh last week was a serious, businesslike affair. To contestants, it was important not only because of the $10,000 in prizes. The prestige of doing well in the P. G. A. is likely to enlarge a professional golfer's income from other sources. Contestants indulged in no disputes or blunders of behavior. After five days of play, four of the young men whose names appear...
Nudes have never been rejected by the Royal Academy, but they have always had to be genteel nudes. Ablest figure in the Academy was Model Resting by David Jagger (see cut). Round this a small storm centred, not because the well-painted figure was nude, but because her toenails were polished crimson, a Continental touch that many critics felt to be un-British...