Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life as a dark anachronism from the Middle Ages, the new St. John's Abbey and University will be a vivid testimony to the way the life of the spirit leaps from century to century and is contemporary in each. It is being designed by one of the brightest-burning lights of modern architecture-Hungarian-born Marcel Breuer, 51, who learned his disciplined economy of line and plane at Walter Gropius' famed Bauhaus in the '20s, and developed it into one of the most flexible and creative styles on U.S. drawing boards...
...fish in the Tory school-an intellectual in a party which prefers character to brains, a political philosopher in a party which habitually relies on dimly felt tradition, a remote ascetic in a party of sociable men. But Rab Butler, 51, is the Tory Party's brightest rising star. In his two years as Chancellor, he has done much to restore his country's pride and place. As party man, he has given his party new life, established himself as a coming Prime Minister...
...dollars were taking flyers in such stocks as Uranium, Inc., Sun Uranium, Atlas Uranium. Penny Stock, and Uranium Corp. of America. The fever started in Salt Lake City, spread to Denver, and to the San Francisco Mining Exchange. There, said President George Flach, the uranium boom has brought "the brightest prospects I've seen around here in ten or 15 years...
...public prosecutor promptly haled Muto into court under an old Fascist law against spreading "false and adulterated news to perturb the public order." Challenged to prove his story, Muto accepted, declared that the ringleader was the Marchese Ugo Montagna di San Bartolomeo, one of Rome society's brightest luminaries. The hunting lodge was run by the St. Hubert Club, whose membership list included the Pope's personal physician, high Vatican lay officials, and Piero Piccioni, jazz-pianist son of Scelba's Foreign Minister. Wilma was allegedly seen in a car like young Piccioni's black Alfa...
Lessons for Children. Author de Beauvoir is at her brightest and best in describing the sort of exasperation that takes a keen-witted, methodical man when he tries to get the better of a girl who lives stubbornly by whim and base instinct. The more Pierre tries to discipline Xaviere, the more apt she is to turn up at the wrong place at the wrong time, or to keep an appointment for an intellectual talk at a sidewalk cafe loaded down with a bag of shrimp and bananas...