Word: brightest
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...both in public achievement and private character, Sir Thomas was the greatest Englishman of his age. As a humanist and classical scholar, he ranked with Pico and Erasmus. As an author (Utopia), he became the first great social philosopher of the modern era. As a jurist, he was the brightest legal light of the realm. As a politician, he rose to the highest office in the King's gift: Lord Chancellor. As a Christian, he stood fast to his principles in the greatest scandal of the century, choosing to save his soul though he lost his head...
...presence of Meredith, for the University of Mississippi is very much the pride of the state, in everything from its football team to its law school. There are two larger schools in the state, Mississippi State and Mississippi Southern, but Ole Miss is Mississippi. The state's brightest students have always gone to Ole Miss; its political leaders, both good and bad, have always begun their rise to power at the Ole Miss Law School...
...near the bottom of virtually every index of progress, from literacy to average income to the number of dentists per capita. Though the legislature in the '20s dubbed Arkansas the "Wonder State" and later more modestly renamed it the "Land of Opportunity," by the early '40s the brightest opportunity for young people moving off the farms lay in a one-way ticket to another state. Those who managed to get a good education found little reward for their learning back home; a competent technician could ask higher wages within half a day's bus ride in almost...
...three, Malinin, described by one observer as "just one of the faceless many" in the Russian embassy, clearly had the brightest future, suffering only the embarrassment of being expelled from the U.S. If convicted, Boeckenhaupt, on the other hand, could receive the death penalty; Mulvena, 14 years in one of Britain's sometimes insecure jails. Whether or not Boeckenhaupt passed on important information or, indeed, any information at all, he had every opportunity to glean intelligence of interest to the Russians. The Pentagon post where he worked not only has positions of U.S. combat aircraft and missiles but also...
...take shape after the 16th century Council of Trent, which ordered every diocese to support and properly train its own priests. In 1552 St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, set up the Gregorian. Eventually, Catholic prelates from other countries created col leges in Rome so that their brightest seminarians could study under the Greg's good Jesuit teachers or with the Dominicans at the Angelicum (founded in 1580). Once back home, graduates soon found that a degree from Rome was the sort of clerical credential that led to quick promotion. Study at the English College, founded...