Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Athletic Club's swimming pool, the ablest male swimmers in the country gathered last week to compete in the Amateur Athletic Union's annual national indoor championships. After three days, eleven titles had been decided, seven records had been broken, and, from the glass-green water through which they had been splashing, three young swimmers had emerged who, in 1936, may well be competent to dispute the complete supremacy in short-distance races which Japanese swimmers established in the Olympic Games...
Swimmers. Jack Medica has been recognized as the ablest middle-distance free-style swimmer in the U. S. since Johnny Weissmuller became a cinemactor. Peter Fick, last week's free-style sprint winner, 20 years old, 185 lb., broke Weissmuller 's 100-metre record last year. Third of last week's main Olympic hopes, unknown nationally until this winter, Adolph Kiefer is a 16-year-old Chicagoan, trained by his father, onetime swimming instructor in the German Army...
...last summer, Dizzy Dean was known to U. S. baseball addicts as the most picturesque, possibly the ablest pitcher in the game. The World Series and the ballyhoo that surrounded his performance in it began to make him something else, a national hero. He and Brother Paul appeared in cinema and vaudeville. He got $15,000 as hero of a Grape-Nuts comic strip. He endorsed sweatshirts, baseball suits and liniment. When, two months ago, before going to Bradenton (whose Chamber of Commerce recently voted to change its name to Deanville), he won an argument to have his salary raised...
...Eleanor Powell is generally considered the ablest female tap-dancer in the world. She started her professional career in 1929 after her father, a Springfield, Mass., gentleman farmer, lost money in Florida real estate. Her first engagement was a 20-week vaudeville tour at $100 a week, when she was 15. Since then she has appeared in Follow Through, Fine & Dandy, two of George White's Scandals, toured in Billy Rose's Crazy Quilt. At Manhattan's Casino de Paree, where the average engagement is two weeks, she stayed...
...Edmund B. Chaffee published an "Open Letter to the President" in his Presbyterian Tribune. The Christian Century editorialized vigorously. The Department of International Justice and Goodwill of the Federal Council of Churches came out with a forthright protest to the President signed by 200 churchfolk, including some of the ablest bishops, pastors, religious editors, missionary leaders and pedagogs in the land. Rev. Harry Frederick Wrard, Union Theological Seminary professor, declared in a sermon that during the maneuvers might occur the "incident" that would bring on the Japanese war which, said he, the U. S. is courting. Finally, to the chorus...