- "The
Ablest Man in the World" is a
short story by
American journalist and
author Edward Page Mitc****. It was
written in 1879 and
published unattributed...
- was
founded at
Aversa for the
daughters of
public functionaries, and the
ablest from the
provincial schools, to be
admitted under the
personal patronage...
- problems—he
cannot p**** the buck. I made the
decision after discussions with the
ablest men in our Government, and
after long and
prayerful consideration. I decided...
- time, and
Henry V****all-Fox
called him "the
greatest statesman and the
ablest general of
ancient or
modern times".
Cobban states that he
showed his genius...
- victory) was founded, a
Volksraad elected, and Piet Retief, one of the
ablest of the Voortrekkers,
chosen "governor and commandant-general". The emigrants...
- An 1857 Harper's W****ly
column describes Carey as "the best
known as well as the
ablest of
American Political Economists."...
-
commander was
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel,
whose re****tion as one of the
ablest tank
commanders of the war
earned him the
nickname der Wüstenfuchs, "the...
- College, Oxford. His tutor,
Vernon Bogdanor, has
described him as "one of the
ablest"
students he has taught, with "moderate and
sensible Conservative" political...
-
without a
certain elevation of mind ... He was both the
ablest Parliament man, and the
ablest manager of a Parliament, that I
believe ever
lived ... Money...
- technocratic. Some uses of the word
refer to a form of meritocracy,
where the
ablest are in charge,
ostensibly without the
influence of
special interest groups...
