Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boys and girls now dream of better farms, not of city life-at least those who are good at farming. So said a poll of country youngsters themselves, taken at the 20th annual 4-H Club Congress in Chicago last week. Polices were the 1,570 4-H delegates, ablest and best-educated group of U.S. farm youth...
...next U.S. Ambassador to Mexico will be one of the State Department's ablest, busiest career diplomats. For last week President Roosevelt chose George Strausser Messersmith, now Ambassador to Cuba, to succeed Josephus Daniels in Mexico City...
...Vichy had recommissioned the 26,500-ton battleship Dunkerque and made it ready for action. In French North Africa and Dakar, German "technicians" were reported arriving by the score. In Paris, Marcel Déat, ablest spokesman for collaboration, urged open war against General de Gaulle to recover the lost colonies...
...first time in World War II-in spite of many earlier false reports-there was confirmation last week that one of the belligerents had used gas.* It came from pudgy-cheeked, moody Jack Belden of the International News Service, known as the ablest field correspondent assigned to the China war. Correspondent Belden likes to break away from his base and go off on long trips into the interior. He comes back with such stories as his classic accounts of the Chinese retreat in North China in 1937 and of the operational tactics of the New Fourth Army...
...history, Rita Hayworth makes her costarring debut in R. K. O.'s "You'll Never Get Rich," now showing at Loew's State and Orpheum. She is called upon to fill the shoes--or rather, dancing slippers--of Ginger Rogers, and to twirl the light fantastic with filmdom's ablest dancer, Fred Astaire. It's to her credit that she does a snappy job, although she is continually outshone in their dancing scenes by her flashier partner. This is a fate which was shared by La Rogers as well, and it is probably due as much to the excellent camera...