Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also challenge your statement on p. 37 concerning the ablest coach in the Midwest? May I nominate for that post and as one of America's ablest basketball coaches. Dr. Forrest C. ("Phog"') Allen, coach of the University of Kansas...
Coach Lambert, so excitable that he frequently feeds himself five sticks of chewing gum at once, has been at Purdue since 1916; in the last seven years Purdue has won or tied for four championships, never been below second place till this year. This may make Piggy Lambert the ablest coach in the Midwest; if not, the ablest is probably Dr. Walter E. ("Doc") Meanwell of Wisconsin, a stocky, irascible theorist who never played basketball. He now directs practice from a tall perambulator which assistant managers push around the floor. His teams, more than usually adept at blocking and feint...
Secretary of State. Cordell Hull, 61, was picked because he is the ablest tariff man in his party and President Roosevelt proposes to start world trade again by international tariff agreements. Rated high for quiet good sense and personal integrity, Senator Hull's appointment produced the loudest popular applause. Abed with a bad cold in his two-room apartment in Washington's fashionable Carlton Hotel, the new Secretary of State said: "I hope I have the capacity to measure up to the responsibilities." After March 4 he will take a larger suite at the Carlton...
...Mount Van Hoevenberg run was constructed two years ago because the program of winter sports for the Xth Olympiad included bob-sled racing, hitherto practiced only in the Alps. The run cost $250,000, most of which was supplied by New York State. Last week most of the ablest licensed* bob-sled drivers in the U. S. climbed into a steam-heated tractor-truck at the bottom of the slide, had themselves carried up to the top for the start of the North American Championships...
...that the nominees of the council do not necessarily represent the choice of the majority of freshmen, that these nominees are not the ablest and most efficient men of the class but have caught the council's eye by prominence in athletics, previous friendship, or by activities in such sinecure positions as the dormitory committees (which are also completely non-representative groups...