Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...point as certain education policies. Particularly involved is the question of medicine. Last year the University of Chicago hospitals and clinics lost $831,000. Under the merger, Chicago would turn over its practical work to the Presbyterian Hospital and, taking over Northwestern's ablest men, would concentrate on research. This would conform to the Rockefeller notion of emphasis on research...
...first week of every composition course, especially English A. It contains a number of amiably generalized complaints about the intellectual apathy of the undergraduates and about their insulation from experience. Their novelty perished with the seventeenth century. A review of John Strachey's "The Menace of Fascism" is the ablest bit of journalism in the issue, but is content to leave the book unanalyzed, and without comment...
...late J. P. Morgan sought rare old snuff-boxes." He has journalistic premonitions which stand him in good stead. "He is practically a whippoorwill in his ability to forecast death, especially the death of an eminent citizen." Generally considered Manhattan's most colorful as well as ablest city editor. Stanley Walker fulfills the first requisite of a Manhattanite by having been born elsewhere (on a Texas ranch), its second by living outside Manhattan (at Great Neck, L.I., where he keeps his wife, two children). Short, wiry, cigar-smoking, a demon for work and night life, Editor Walker knows...
Professor Buell complimented the Administration on its handling of the situation so far. "Roosevelt," the Professor said, "is perhaps the first president to understand the relation between Cuba's political unrest and her economic situation." The speaker called Ambassador Sumner Welles '13, one of "the ablest men in our diplomatic service...
...wall were the original drawings, matrices and specimen sheets of most of the 87 type faces. Most of the sheets were hand set and printed by Bertha Goudy who can match her husband's repu tation as a type designer with her own as the world's ablest woman printer. In Marlborough, N. Y., despite exhausting and remunerative* work for publishers, advertising agencies and type founders, the Goudys still do with their own hands all the work of the original Village Press. Bertha Goudy has a collection of 29 lively tropical birds. Chief of the aviary...