Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alfonso XIII, King of Nowhere, Duke of Toledo, was comfortably settled in his quarters in Fontainebleau last week. Correspondents who have called him the ablest politician in Spain followed his maneuvres with interest...
Creature of a student organization, the Commission is yet not a body of impulsive juvenile radicals. Many of its members are mature, experienced religious leaders. Its report is headed by a statement by one of Socialism's ablest, most trustworthy advocates?38-year-old, athletic Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, professor of applied Christianity at Union Theological Seminary. Calling himself a "tamed cynic," he is still known as one who aims to shock the complacent, to kinetize the nation's youth with his own high-powered enthusiasm. Son of a Missouri pastor, he was ordained in the Evangelical Church in 1915, held...
...with 25 others, was missing after the sealing ship exploded. Frissell's father, Dr. Lewis Fox Frissell of Manhattan, had sent them up -Balchen, F. Merion Cooper and Pilot Randy Enslow-because he was doggedly hopeful that his son was alive, and because Balchen is probably the ablest Arctic flyer alive. Said he: "Varick will come back all right. . . . He's been through that sort of thing before. I am optimistic, and I believe I have a right...
...premiére of a one-act opera called Peter the Miner. He had written it himself but he was too sick to travel from Brussels to see it played. Seventy-two, diabetic, one leg amputated, he had to listen to his opera over the radio. One of his ablest violin pupils represented him at the performance: Her Majesty Queen Elisabeth...
...going to carry them out. It doesn't seem to me that postponing examinations to the end of the second year will work very well unless checked up by some very efficient tutorial system. I do not think it advisable that a university should concentrate on its ablest students and leave the mass pretty much to look after themselves." He said that this may be a misconception of Chicago's plan, but that at least it was the opinion of many people...