Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nationalist Government moved promptly for relief. A committee was organized at Shanghai with the ablest man in Chiang Kai-shek's Cabinet at its head, Finance Minister T. V. Soong, Harvard man, scion of the great "Soong Dynasty" of Shanghai bankers, and President Chiang Kai-shek's brother-in-law. Minister Soong adjusted his glasses, went to work...
...deals marked the eighth and ninth acquisitions made by Atlas since last October. President of the company is a quiet, modest man of 39 who is considered one of the ablest men in the country yet is as obscure as his company. He is Floyd Bostwick Odium (pronounced: Oddlum) whose other chief interests are his vice-presidency of Electric Bond & Share and his vice-chairmanship of its big unit. American & Foreign Power Co. Seldom in the public prints, he was written up two years ago for conducting the "most expensive telephone call," London-New York, 95 min., $1,425. Slim...
Henri Cochet, of France, world's ablest tennis amateur, confided to friends that he was going to turn professional. They expected him to sign a contract (like William Tatem Tilden II, Vincent Richards, Karel Kozeluh) with fat Jack Curley, who is now scouting Europe for wrestling talent...
...work of the 1930-31 Council has been done quietly and unobtrusively, Committees have investigated problems of vital importance to the undergraduate; the largest and most comprehensive report is still to come, that on the tutorial system and the general examinations. Under the leadership of one of the ablest presidents a Harvard Student Council has over had, the group has shown that it is more than a subcommittee of the athletic council, a suspicion which had been increasing for several years...
...hydroplane, outboard and runabout motor boats. In its roar the drone of individual engines could be distinguished. In the boats, bouncing on the floorboards in their padded driving suits, clutching their wheels with one hand while with the other they tuned their engines, could be seen the pilots, the ablest outboard and runabout "bugs" in the country, off again on the annual 142-mile race to Manhattan. Many of them were professionals little known outside the outboard motor trade, but there were amateurs too: Kirk Ames, stage funnyman; Harold Chapman, who won the race around Manhattan last summer; Bog Flagg...