Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first clear picture ever made of a molecule was last week shown on a lantern slide. Some of the ablest U.S. scientists-members of the American Philosophical Society, founded 198 years ago by Benjamin Franklin-gaped in awe, for they were seeing something never before distinctly seen...
...with 25 other U.S. artists, had agreed to use Lewenthal as an agent. The A.A.A.'s rise from a one-desk agency to a $500,000-a-year business drove many a frock-coated Manhattan gallery director furiously to think. Behind that rocketing rise lay one of the ablest promotion and distribution jobs the U.S. art world has seen...
...Brothers Warner have made other concessions: Miss Davis' perpetual, migrainy suffering has been cut to a minimum. This was a bold move, for Hollywood's bug-eyed Bernhardt has won two Oscars and numerous legs on the cup for the U.S. cinema's ablest actress by her portrayals of suffering women. In The Great Lie she is cast as a lively, homespun, slacks-wearing American girl free from her favorite neuroses. Although the picture has her living on a Maryland plantation, it is far enough north to let her waive the absurdities of a Southern accent...
...Locarno in 1925. Those tireless peace men, Aristide Briand and Austen Chamberlain, were trying to per suade the Republic of Germany to enter the League of Nations and make a final peace pact. The Republic had its finger in its mouth. Then Mrs. Austen Chamberlain, her husband's ablest helper, rose to the emergency. She chartered a small yacht, stocked it with international delicacies, and during one long afternoon the plenipotentiaries of Britain, Germany and France relaxed on the placid bosom of Lake Maggiore...
...fascism and reaction. It is, of course, a Zionist organization. But this problem, too, it treats on a practical basis. It does not advocate transporting every Jew to Palestine. Rather, it confines itself to raising money to buy land in Palestine and to sending there many of its ablest members to investigate and help this project. But its most important and effective work is done with American and foreign Jews who intend to live in this country. It is primarily concerned with teaching Jews what it believes to be the correct attitudes they should adopt towards democracy and their future...