He and a girl,Elinor White, had the best record of the students graduating that year.

VOA: special.2011.04.10

The late president's son had the best-financed campaign, the support of the security services and the political infrastructure of the ruling Gabonese Democratic Party.

VOA: standard.2009.08.30

but she has not had the best of luck in the romance department and, with her biological clock ticking away, she has decided the "right guy" may never show up.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

Many years later, Earl Cooley told a newspaper that he still believed he had made the best decision he could.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

A few months earlier, the government of President George Washington had started a contest for the best design for the Capitol.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

By this time, Jackson had decided that Van Buren would be the best man to follow him as president.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

Astronauts would be chosen for the program from the best military test pilots who had education in science or engineering.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

By the middle nineteen fifties, Doctor Seuss had become one of the best-loved and most successful children's book writers in the world.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

Best of all, I loved writing about the game on an old typewriter I had borrowed from someone in my father's office.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

He didn't seem to need the money. He had many friends among the best families of New York.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

They found that the best position for gliding had the back two wings in a position similar to that of a flying squirrel.

VOA: special.2010.03.16

Before he became a power hitter, he had been among the best pitchers of his time.

VOA: special.2011.03.27

It wasn't easy, but we slowly rebuilt those neighborhoods one block at a time, and in the process I received the best education I ever had."

VOA: special.2009.01.12

Southern General Joe Johnston said: "Mr. Lincoln was the best friend we had.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

Since then Dave Brubeck has had many different quartets His best known jazz works include "In Your Own Sweet Way," "The Duke" and "Blue Rondo a La Turk."

VOA: special.2009.11.30

He called her the best jazz singer he had ever heard.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

But dying is a different way, A kind behind the door -- Some historians wish that Emily Dickinson's poems had reached the best American writers of her day: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau or Walt Whitman.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

A friend of Webster's described the meeting in these words: "Mister Clay came to Mister Webster's house and had a long talk with him about the best way to settle the difficulties growing out of slavery and the new territories.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

It was one of the best experiences I've had in Asia. Great fun,very safe and very comfortable vehicles too."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

The best treatment available was arsenic, so that was what people reached for when they had unexplained health problems."

VOA: standard.2010.06.09