Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acclimatized to English weather and accustomed to English tracks ?under the guidance of the celebrated British trainer, Eton-bred Captain Cecil Boyd-Rochfort, at his famed Freemason Lodge at Newmarket. The rest of the crop is sent to Long Island, entrusted to the loving care of Trainer Fitzsimmons, ablest...
Arrow, published by an anonymous group of journalists of whom the leader is grey-haired, pink-faced Fred Voigt, one of the ablest newspapermen in England and a close friend of Sir Robert Vansittart, famed Foreign Office careerist. Printed on a hand press in an Old Gloucester Street basement, Arrow comes out on Friday, helps to fill the weekend gap in British news. Its policy: ''England must be strong...
...Next election," he says, "the New Deal is going to be on trial again. President Roosevelt is its ablest spokesman and in a Democratic country it deserves an able advocate. I hope he runs. Then we can debate it to everybody's satisfaction. It will be a great discussion...
...same efficient way as he had handled Cincinnati's flood as its City Manager, but he has so far kindled no fire among faculty or students. Frank Porter Graham, 52, is called "Mr. Frank" by his students at the University of North Carolina. Generally rated the ablest U. S. State university president, he has helped make North Carolina tops in the South. He fought in the trenches during the World War, still fights with the Legislature and utility interests that attempt to silence his liberal professors...
Progressive educators rate Quaker, co-educational Swarthmore as the No. 1 U. S. college, Frank Aydelotte as the ablest U. S. college president. Little Swarthmore aspires to cultivate its students' emotions and morals as well as their minds, is a good all around institution. Aydelotte, 58, a onetime Rhodes scholar, golfs in the low 80s, is a whiz at money raising, loved by his students, a good all around...