Word: ablest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Someone was needed who could plan and plead reorganization in the slipshod War Department, set up administrations for the colonies newly-won from Spain. Appointed, Lawyer Root did both jobs brilliantly. He stayed on with Theodore Roosevelt and, when John Hay died, he became one of the ablest Secretaries of State in U. S. history...
...wonder, when his regular interviews are as useless as this, that the student does not think of going to his dean for advice which he is, of all others, ablest to give. All this is a result of treating intelligent men like cogs in a communist bureaucracy...
When the Black Hawks wron the Stanley Cup a year ago, a lion's share of the credit went to their spry, handsome, chattering little goaltender, Charles ("Chuck") Gardiner, considered one of the ablest in the history of the game. Two months after the final game last year, Gardiner died of a brain tumor. Whether the Black Hawks win again will depend on many things but most of all upon the man who took his place...
...where he taught himself to coach swimmers by watching them swim. He promptly adopted a radical method to improve the physical condition of his squad: gymnasium exercises, which most coaches then thought made swimmers musclebound. Stocky, shock-haired, absorbed in his vocation, Bob Kiphuth found himself recognized as the ablest U. S. swimming coach when he was chosen to train the 1928 U. S. Olympic team. In 1932, functioning in the same capacity, he was libeled by Cartoonist Robert ("Believe It or Not") Ripley who magnified the fact that Kiphuth was never on a swimming team into the statement that...
...land (TIME, Oct. 22), broke the news that he was going to work for William Randolph Hearst as managing editor of the gaudy tabloid Daily Mirror. To practically all of the Herald Tribune's staff it was a disruptive shock. Stanley Walker had built up the ablest staff of newswriters in the city. They, in turn, fairly idolized him. More than one actually wept into his beer at the prospect of a city room without City Editor Walker. That loyalty was a contributing factor in Stanley Walker's decision to quit. He had never been able...