Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York's history, showed no inclination whatever to climb out and let the experts in. When the children were finally shunted to one side, the crowning absurdity was revealed. The pool was only three-feet deep instead of the Olympic standard of five. Long-armed swimmers, usually the ablest, who tried to do the crawl scraped their fingernails on the bottom. Said Olympic Coach Ray Daughters: "Mark my words . . . the tryouts are going to be miserable...
...league -Warneke, Lee, French, Davis and Carleton. Weakness of the team so far has been the failure of Outfielder Augie Galan to bat as well as he did last year. The Cardinals have Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean, generally rated the best pitcher in baseball, and, at second base, the ablest recruit in the league, Stuart Martin, who is not to be confused with their famed third baseman. Pepper Martin, now playing at right field...
...running, three teams were last week fighting for the two remaining places in the league's first division. Of the three-Cincinnati Reds, Pittsburgh Pirates and New York Giants-the Reds, in the third season under their enthusiastic owner, Radio's Powel Crosley, appeared the ablest, as they were undoubtedly the most surprising, because they have won only one pennant in 51 years, have been tailenders since 1929. The Boston Bees (onetime Braves), feeblest team in the league a year ago, were battling sturdily in sixth place, far ahead of the Philadelphia Phillies, the ridiculously temperamental Brooklyn Dodgers...
...this end, some of Wall Street's ablest have exerted themselves through four years of financial diplomacy. The debenture holders' protective committee, headed by Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy, formed only a month after Kreuger's suicide, entered a race to find assets where it was generally believed that no assets existed. A Committee of Investigation appointed by the Swedish Government early reported: "Our examination has reached the point where we can state definitely that there will be little, if anything, for distribution to unsecured creditors...
...maintained the horizontal for a good four minutes, according to a South India tea planter named P. T. Plunkett, who wrote an enthralled account of the seance to the Illustrated London News. Common theories that the trick is done by crowd suggestion had to be scrapped. Even the ablest exponent of Yoga cannot hypnotize a camera...