Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That academic standards be stiffened. If each new year marks the entrance of 'Yale's brightest class ever,' then a corresponding rise in standards is fair...
...build this university," said he in 1921, "is to use the machinery of the Mormon Church." As president, he persuaded Mormon leaders to shower the university with money. He also persuaded them to tell the church's stakes, wards and missions" to send him their brightest boys and girls. In some quarters, his brisk way of doing things earned him the title of "Little Napoleon." To others he was "the Little Dynamo." By 1953 he had so impressed his trustees that they put him in charge of the Mormon educational system, which includes one liberal-arts college in Idaho...
...Brownell's most successful recruiting innovations puts the Department of Justice in competition with private firms and business corporations for the brightest law-school graduates. The program is in its third year, with the young lawyers agreeing to serve two years and to consider the opportunity of staying on as career Justice lawyers. This year 71 law graduates from 38 schools, all of them in the top 25% of their class, are entering the Justice Department...
...Ford Motor Co. developed a new car so seemingly sleek that no known Detroit word could possibly describe it. What to name it? Soaring images tumbled from copywriters' brains; contests were held. But to Ford Special Products Division's David Wallace, a most literate carmaker, even the brightest, headiest names in all cardom were far from enough. This was no mere car; it was poetry in motion. And it was to the nation's leading poetess that Wallace went for help...
...industry has seen to it that most adolescents look like Marlon Brando, and if possible James Dean. In Paris there are 10,000 Marlon Brandos, 10,000 James Deans, and ten Yul Brynners." But by and large, French moviemen admire Hollywood. Says Alexandre Astruc, one of France's brightest young directors: "American movies are for me the very first in the world. The reason? Because in them one never feels what really kills a movie-the contempt of those who make them for the public and for their art." Jean Cocteau enters a dissent: "Hollywood is a royal house...