Huey Long, dead of an assassin's bullet before he was 43, was by all odds the most ambitious and the most demagogic of a lot that has included his brother Earl, Tom Watson, Pitchfork Ben Tillman, Theodore K . Bilbo, Big Jim Folsom, Gene Talmadge and Jesse Helms.
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Pitiless in business deals, in his personal affairs he was warm and generous, and at sixty, according to Tarbell, " by all odds, the handsomest and most distinguished figure in Wall Street . " . . . Rogers delighted in outwitting his contemporaries and in exercising power that comes from great wealth.
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The script received high praise, with critic George Jean Nathan remarking " Of the new American plays announced for production this season that I have looked at in manuscript'Daughters of Atreus'is thus far and by all odds the best . " However, due to poor management the production received mixed reviews and the play closed after only 13 performances.
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In a review in the New York Times ( 4 / 27 / 1947 ), Stephen Wheeler wrote that it was " by all odds the best book on atomic energy so far to be published for the ordinary reader . " Similarly, James J . Jelinek wrote that it was an " invaluable contribution to the layman . " He credits Hecht with " conveying to the layman the intellectual drama " of the development.
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So, in Price's 1913 book, " The Fundamentals of Geology ", an expanded version of " Illogical Geology ", he presented the " Law of Conformable Stratigraphic Sequences " which states " any kind of fossiliferous rock may occur conformably on any other kind of fossiliferous rock, old or young . " To Price this law was " by all odds the most important law ever formulated with reference to the order in which the strata occur ."
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He was remembered by Richard Coulter Drum, a member of the 9th Infantry who participated in the battle and went on to serve as Adjutant General of the United States Army, as " by all odds the most brilliant man under fire I have ever seen . " In response to an inquiry years after Ransom's death, Drum expressed his admiration for Ransom by writing " In all my experience in the army, I never knew so complete and perfect a soldier as Colonel Truman B . Ransom ."
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It moves gracefully and lightly; it is endlessly haunting in its pictorial qualities; and reveals a Miss Cornell who equals the beauty of the lyric lines she speaks with a new-found lyric beauty of her own voice . . . . To add that it is by all odds the most lovely and enchanting Juliet our present-day theatre has seen is only to toss it the kind of superlative it honestly deserves . " Later, the same critic determined that this role was a turning point in her career, as it meant that she could finally leave the " trifling scripts " of her earlier career and could meet the challenging demands of the greatest classic roles.
