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worst 1, adjective (oh) and Nevins, Allan (sh)


worst 1, adjective (oh)



[Language: Old English; Origin: wierresta, wyrsta]
[only before noun] worse than anything or anyone else
-see also best best
::This is the worst recession for fifty years.
::My worst fear was that we would run out of Food.
::What is the worst possible thing that can happen?
be your own worst enemy
to cause a lot of problems for yourself because of your own behaviour
come off worst
to lose a fight or argument

Nevins, Allan (sh)




born May 20, 1890, Camp Point, Ill., U.S.
died March 5, 1971, Menlo Park, Calif.

U.S. historian.

He worked nearly 20 years as a journalist before joining the faculty at Columbia University (1928-58). His best-known works include biographies of U.S. political and industrial figures, including Grover Cleveland (1932, Pulitzer Prize) and Hamilton Fish (1936, Pulitzer Prize), and his eight-volume history of the American Civil War, comprising Ordeal of the Union (1947), The Emergence of Lincoln (1950), and The War for Union (1959-71). In 1948 he inaugurated at Columbia the first oral history program in the U.S.