Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grey, square Scot named John Dunbar, dour and extraordinarily shrewd. The other was a swart, stumpy Jew named Julius Salter Elias. Dunbar was made managing editor of the Herald, Elias the chairman and managing director. Rich Publisher Elias, no newsman, is one of the ablest businessmen on Fleet Street. He put John Bull on its feet following the downfall of its former publisher, the late, notorious Horatio Bottomley. Ambitious, he openly seeks a title, and he will get none so long as Scot MacDonald is Prime Minister. The Prime Minister has never forgiven him for publishing in John Bull...
...begging for Federal aid took hope when the New Deal came in. Last June they began looking anxiously towards the white Department of the Interior Building in Washington, wherein is housed the U. S. Office of Education. Secretary Ickes had appointed a committee to canvass the nation for the ablest possible successor to U. S. Commissioner of Education William John Cooper. The committee picked George Frederick Zook, 48, president of the University of Akron (TIME, July 3). Satisfied with his educational record (after working his way through the University of Kansas by driving a hearse he had taught modern European...
...Virginia-born, he once made a Virginia audience squirm by telling them how, in a Jim Crow car, he asked a Negro woman to sit by him and cried down the other passengers when they sought to have her ousted. ¶ Author Jones asked two Methodists who is their ablest preacher. Both named Dr. Ernest Fremont Tittle of Evanston, Ill., who last spring was hounded as a Communist by a group calling themselves "Paul Reveres" (TIME, March 27). Said one Methodist: "He leaves me cold but he has the goods: brains, courage and an extraordinary gift of adapting...
...oncoming hurricane. The northeaster smote hardest along the New Jersey shore on a Sunday. Holiday fishermen had their craft capsized by the onslaught of wind and wave, were dragged to safety by alert, courageous Coast Guardsmen. Eight lives were lost, among them some of the oldest and ablest fishing skippers along the coast. Week-end trippers at Atlantic City were banged and buffeted. At Lewes, Del. Stanley H. Johnson, Denver juvenile court judge, with his wife, daughter and two seamen, was rescued from his sinking yacht Dolphin...
Dean Black's own methods in preventive dentistry are unique. When he reorganized the research department in Northwestern University's Dental School, he took on a metallurgist, two chemists, a pathologist, a physiologist and an anatomist. Ablest of these is pipe-smoking Pathologist Edward Howard Hatton, now the department's director, specialist in focal infection...