Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides the 50 new preceptors?supervisors of small study conferences held in conjunction with lecture courses?Princeton took on 37 new faculty members in 1905-06, made preceptors of 14 who were already there. Chosen from the nation's ablest, these 101 teachers, most of them young, were to become proud of themselves as a group. Seventy of them stayed in pedagogy. Most of them reached prominence?such prominence that last week the Princeton Alumni Weekly asked proudly, ''Where Are the Preceptor Guys?" and told about them as follows...
...This one is not. It moves too slowly and its ingenious story idea does not conceal the fact that its authors were so dazzled by their plot that they failed to investigate its possibilities. Warner Baxter performs with the dignity proper to a patriot aware that he is dead. Ablest things in the picture are probably the work of its director, William Dieterle, and the shot of a crowd which has heard about the Captain's demise, parting in front of him as he walks toward the steps of the conference building...
...United Lutherans re-elected as president for the eighth term their ablest man, Dr. Frederick Hermann Knubel, 62, tall, active, Vandyke-bearded Manhattanite, whose many jobs caused him some years ago to give up the pastorate of the influential Church of Our Saviour's Atonement which he founded...
...planning to make conditions as encouraging as possible for the unusually brilliant scholar the University is putting emphasis in the right place. Mr. Wernaer's proposal to induce the ablest men to choose scholarship as a career by creating a permanent position for them in the university structure is admirable. The Society of Fellows, however, is something definitely worthwhile for itself, and if endowment for the Society is available within a year or two, its establishment need not be delayed until the time, probably distant, when something like Mr. Wernaer's Institute of Research can be founded...
Next day President de Valera, who of course spoke English, "handled the spiny and involved debate with a quiet efficiency that marked him as one of the ablest presiding officers the Council has ever had," according to the New York Times's able Clarence K. Streit...