Word: ablest
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...page at a time. Mark Twain compared it to the works of Russian realists of whom Ed Howe had never heard. A bleak, bitter biography of himself and his itinerant evangelist father, The Story of a Country Town was a precedent for the school of U. S. fiction whose ablest current practitioner is Sinclair Lewis. More than 100.000 copies have been sold; a first edition is worth...
...controversy. Mr. Murry's book is valuable, as a key to Mr. Murry's psychology it takes rank with his life of Christ and his "metabiological treatise" on God. The excerpts from his criticisms of Lawrence's books give new substance to Middleton Murry's position as the ablest critic in England; it is unfortunate that the text should show him forth as one of the strangest men she has ever produced...
BOrn. To John Randolph Hearst, 24, third and ablest son of William Randolph Hearst, and Gretchen Wilson Hearst; a son, their first child; in Manhattan. Weight...
...last year the University of Chicago hospitals and clinics lost $831,000." The truth is they closed the year with no deficit whatever-a remarkable showing. The statement that under the proposed merger "Chicago would turn over its practical work to Presbyterian Hospital and, taking over Northwestern's ablest men, would concentrate on research" is also unfounded. The proposal of merger is still in an early stage of discussion. Nothing has been agreed upon and no action will be taken without thorough study and careful weighing of educational advantages and disadvantages...
...staffed up. ready to move whiskeys and whatnot from warehouses via retailers to sideboards as none of the distillers or importers except perhaps Schenley is yet prepared to do. After the stampede is well begun, as all liquormen are beginning to realize, the real money will go to the ablest sales organizations, just as it does in the modern motor industry...