Word: ablest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Squash racquets attracted Eleonora Sears's attention in 1918. Some male player brashly asked if she had ever tried her hand at the game. "No," she said, "but I could." She challenged the ablest male player in Rye, N. Y., won the match. After that, she pioneered by playing squash racquets on the courts of men's clubs in Boston. When a women's championship was finally arranged in 1928, she won it. Since then, she has remained one of the ablest players in the country...
National Champion and the ablest player in the country. "Gino" is Virginia Van Wie, champion from 1932 through 1934. "Maureen" is square-jawed Mrs. Maureen Orcutt Crews of Miami who has been runner-up to the other two more often than anyone else. Last week, it became apparent that this exclusive little cabal was henceforth to be enlarged by "Patty." Patty is Patricia Jane Berg, a snubnosed, redhaired, 18-year-old from Minneapolis, whose doings on golf links for the past eight months have caused her to be recognized as the most promising recruit to the U. S. troupe...
Oldest in point of service of all Adolf Hitler's foreign organizers was Wilhelm Gustloff, 41. He was also among the ablest, possibly because he had more than his political beliefs to recommend him to Swiss converts. An able physicist, he went to live in Davos years ago, feeling that the altitude would help his weak lungs. Even before his friend Hitler became Chancellor he began organizing Nazi groups in Switzerland...
...crowd of 80,000. Practicing at Garmisch-Partenkirchen last week, on the jump which has a swastika placed below the take-off so that a good jumper lands beyond it, Norway's 21-year-old Birger Ruud. Olympic champion in 1932, jumped 269 ft., won an impromptu tournament. Ablest all-round skier on the U. S. team, Richard Durrance, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen for practice ahead of his confrères, placed 18th - an achievement more creditable than it seems because his specialty is not jumping but downhill racing. Major development in the rise of U. S. winter sports...
...them to base-balling in a nearby parking lot. White's Black has not lifted the company out of the red, but he is on record with the prediction that White's 1936 production will top the Wartime record by 10,000 units. One of the ablest merchandisers in the industry, he is credited with having boosted White's morale to a new peak...