Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...measure of that "unfitness" had not been his legal ability: the "Brandeis Brief" had revolutionized legal presentations of evidence and argument; he had personally won resounding court victories over the greatest reigning U.S. barristers for a score of years; Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller had called him "the ablest man who has ever appeared before the Supreme Court of the United States." But the objection to Brandeis arose because he was a man of original, unconventional economic opinions, and he held them with moral fervor...
...returns over 6% of its puny original stake went to the Government. Democrats and Republicans alike were indignant. Everyone, in & out of Congress, agreed that no decent business in 1941 wants to make a fortune out of World War II, but neither did the U.S. want to make its ablest businessmen pay the whole bill. Said the New York Times...
...medal round Miss Amory shot 76, low score of the day. But after the first round of match play, she was on the sidelines. So was Mrs. Holleran and Defending Champion Betty Jameson, generally considered the ablest of America's golfing sorority, who was put out by a bespectacled upstart named Janet Younker. Two or three rounds later they were joined by Mrs. Leichner, by six-time Champion Glenna Collett Vare, by twice runner-up Maureen Orcutt, by other pre-tournament favorites. By that time the gallery turned its toes toward Betty Hicks Newell, a pint-sized 20-year...
...Almanacers' ablest vocalists is Pete Bowers, and he gets to sing the punchiest of the six numbers, the title song of the collection. A lanky New Englander, he talks union with plenty of persuasion, reasoning, scorning, joking, dropping a G where it will do the most good and putting it right back where necessary...
Last week Virginia's clearheaded Senator Harry Byrd allowed the SPAB was an improvement on the previous mess. "Yet, after all," said he, "one man, the ablest in America, can do a better job than a seven-man board . . . . Let us have a procurement director . . . with power to act." Thus it remained to be seen whether the new setup could genuinely...