Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nothing whatever to do with Prohibition. Two months ago, after frugally breakfasting on bread and butter, porridge and coffee, out for a walk went Finland's George Washington or First President (1919-25)-Professor Kaarlo Juho Stahlberg. With him walked his wife. Esther, one of Finland's ablest female novelists. Scarcely were they out of sight of their house than they were whisked at pistol-point into an automobile, hurtled all day and all evening over the soggy, rutty Finnish roads toward the Russian border. When the car ran out of gasoline 60 mi. from Russia, the kidnappers...
...Whiting concerts have been attended by a regular clientele who have enjoyed the informal lectures of Mr. Whiting as much as the music itself. Those who appreciate music as something more than a mere sensual pleasure reckoned Mr. Whiting as one of the ablest exponents of the art of music and as one whose keen discrimination always provided a tasteful and well balanced program. There are probably few men in university circles today who have done as much as Mr. Whiting to further the appreciation of good music. The University Concerts of Harvard, Yale and Princeton which he founded...
Viscount Rothermere redoubled his defense of the Passfield Declaration. Said his Daily Mail: "Some of the ablest and wisest Jews in England regarded the creation of a Jewish national home in Palestine for their co-religionists as a mischievous project. Even the New York Times, which is owned by Adolph Ochs, a Jew, only last week expressed opposition to the Balfour Declaration and the Zionist scheme...
...recall ever hearing a professor quick-named "high pockets", but many of Harvard's best and ablest men have been below even medium stature. As I look at it, the high tablers have approximated equality to an exquisite degree. Harrison Brown
...under 35, and one of the four or five ablest of your surrounding 100 fellow-citizens, this book is about and for you. Otherwise not. says the author. The Psychology of Achievement should be a bestseller...