Word: aptest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Diamond's freedom on a murder charge. Dewey and Medalie admire each other's legal talents. John Foster Dulles, 56, a tall, stooped, bespectacled Wall Street lawyer and impeccable Presbyterian, whose life work has been advising people on international affairs. Tom Dewey, he says, is the aptest pupil he ever had. A Princeton graduate, he studied international law at the Sorbonne, was secretary to the Hague Peace Conference when only 19. He directed the legal aspects of much European financing after World War I, in 1927 worked out a financial-stabilization plan for Poland...
...Reader Marx the threadbare dis tinction of pinning the aptest adjective...