Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gehlbach, test pilot for Great Lakes Aircraft Corp., well-known racing pilot. Collins rated him "one of the ablest in the field...
...they won all the swimming prizes at their summer camps, then permitted to bathe for pleasure only. Ruddy boys received more rigorous instruction. The youngest, Donald, now 20 and preparing for college, is a regular on the N. Y. A. C. water polo team. Joe Ruddy Jr. was the ablest swimmer and water poloist who ever attended Annapolis. Now stationed at Shanghai, he was unable to help his brothers last week. Ray Ruddy, most famed member of the family at present and usually considered the ablest water poloist in the world, is 22. He has won the President...
...ablest exponents of the existing order will cry out at this arbitrary treatment of Mr. Strachey, for they maintain that when they know the critic's reasoning they are better able to refute the accusations. As Villard, a prominent liberal and recent lecturer at Harvard, said "repression was never yet a remedy for anything." Martyrdom and emotionalism, it has been historically proved time and time again, always will be the subvertor's most effective weapons...
...come-uppance smart Mr. Prentice ever had. He was born 71 years ago, scion of an old Albany family in which pedigreed cattle had long been a hobby. He sped through Amherst and Harvard Law School, went to Chicago, got a reputation as one of the city's ablest and coldest young men, made friends with Cyrus McCormick, became general counsel for Illinois Steel. At the turn of the Century, he moved to Manhattan and married Alta Rockefeller whose fortune was estimated at $50,000,000. Active law practice held him not many years after that...
Mesta's head is Lorenz Iversen, one of the ablest steel machinery engineers in the U. S. A Danish farm boy turned machinist, he went to sea for two years before migrating to the U. S. After working in a New Jersey shop, he went to Germany for further technical training, returning to a job in Mesta's drafting room...