Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adolph Kiefer of Chicago, ablest backstroke swimmer in the U. S., won the 150-yd. dash by half the length of the pool, without hurrying broke his own world's record by 3 sec., described his performance into a microphone before getting out of the water...
...bankers, utilities men and big real estate owners his sworn enemies. The Press, except for a small Socialist sheet, is solidly against him. Republicans and Democrats have virtually lost their separate identities in uniting to oppose him. Yet Daniel Webster Hoan remains one of the nation's ablest public servants, and under him Milwaukee has become perhaps the best-governed city...
...ones of the year. In them the half-dozen leading teams battle for possession of the world's championship Stanley Cup. The Brobdingnagian encounter between Maroons and Red Wings last week was the first of a three-out-of-five series between the group leaders. The Red Wings-ablest team in the League on their pre-playoff record, built around a crack forward line (Larry Aurie, Herb Lewis, Marty Barry) which scored no points during the season-won the second game, 3-to-0 and the third, in Detroit, 2-to-1. Meanwhile, the Maple Leafs beat the Bruins...
Husky, lusty, greying Jesuit Lord is one of the dozen ablest, best-known Catholic priests in the U. S. A onetime English professor at Jesuit St. Louis University, he became in 1925 U. S. organizer of the Sodality of Our Lady, a band of 1,000,000 young Catholics, and editor of a Catholic paper called The Queen's Work, whose circulation he ran from 12,000 up to 83,000. Father Lord is also the nation's No. 1 Catholic pamphleteer, author of 5? tracts on subjects like Shall I Be a Nun?, My Friend the Pastor...
...Formally Refuse." To London simultaneously rushed a pair of the Wilhelmstrasse's ablest practitioners of diplomacy, smartsters who have helped Adolf Hitler draft his more considered speeches. These were Herr Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff and Dr. Friedrich Gaus, whom any professional diplomat would recognize as aces in their line. They said that Dr. Gaus had made the discovery, after analyzing all treaties concerned, that legally the League cannot punish Germany's present treaty violations by sanctions. This "discovery" the Poles, though they have a ten-year non-aggression pact with Hitler, greeted by sarcastically remarking in London, "Germany...