Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ruth was playing his fourth season with the New York Yankees the year she won the U. S. Women's Championship for the first time, in 1923, against nutbrown, iron-muscled Molla Biurstedt Mallory. By 1927, after Suzanne Lenglen had turned professional, Helen Wills, at 21, was admittedly the ablest amateur woman tennis player in the world. In 1929, she was presented at Buckingham Palace in a shin-length ivory satin dress, exhibited her paintings in London, won the Wimbledon title for the third time, married Frederick S. Moody Jr. So good was she that, for the sake of excitement...
...Defense. A lucid, original mind, engaging presence and quiet, incisive delivery make Bob Hutchins one of the ablest and most popular public speakers in the land. In University of Chicago's majestic cathedral-chapel last week he summed up for all liberal educators their case against the patrioteers. His rangy, athletic figure draped in silken gown and the purple hood of a Doctor of Laws, he leaned out from the pulpit to declare...
...35th annual Western Conference meet last week saw the most amazing individual performance in the history of U.S. track & field sports. Slender, coffee-colored Jesse Owens, 21-year-old Ohio State Sophomore, tied one world's record, broke three, and emerged from the meet indisputably the ablest all-around track athlete currently functioning in the U.S. His records: 20.3 sec. for the 220-yd. dash (old record: 20.6 sec.); 22.6 sec. for the 220-yd. low hurdles (old record: 23 sec.); 26 ft., 8¼ in. for the broad jump (old record...
...Academy's champion small-boat skipper, Midshipman David Seaman, by 50 yd. in a 2½ mi. race in Annapolis Harbor. In the afternoon, President Roosevelt snuggled down into the referee's launch, streaked up the river from Annapolis to watch three crews, two of them the ablest in the East, race 1¾ miles down the Severn for the Adams Cup. Pennsylvania had beaten Princeton, Yale, Columbia. Navy had beaten Cornell and Columbia. The regatta, in which a Harvard shell was also entered, climaxed the season of sprint races in the East. Because the Washington Sophomores...
...last things Test Pilot James H. ("Jimmy") Collins did before his final, fatal power dive was to list the crack U.S. test pilots. High on his list was Lee Gehlbach of Great Lakes Aircraft Corp., whom Collins rated "one of the ablest in the field" (TIME, April 1). Few weeks ago able Pilot Gehlbach announced he would take Jimmy Collins' risky place testing a new Navy fighter for Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. at Farmingdale...