Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Brilliant catches by R. P. Hallowell '20, and L. B. Evans '20 in the outfield, and a difficult one-handed stop of Burns liner by Captain W. W. McLeod '19 helped to keep the visitors' scoreless during the remainder of the game. VERMONT, ab. r. bh. po. a. e. Hamilton, s.s., 3 1 1 1 2 0 Marsh, 3b., 2 0 0 1 1 0 Berry, c.f., 4 0 0 2 0 0 Bowman, 1b., 4 0 1 12 0 0 Smith, 2b., 2 0 1 0 1 0 Palmer, r.f., 4 0 2 0 0 0 Burns...
...reprinting from the Atlantic Monthly the last published words of Frederic Schenck, untimely rapt away,--words, which, by a strange fate, discuss another's guessing at the problem Schenck himself was so soon to solve, the editors have paid a graceful tribute to the memory of a brilliant...
...little-brothers-to-the-rich feel in his indigence a power which deprives them of breath. It is part of the show that he should be poor. Dress him in the fashion, slip a yellow-back into his pocket, clap him into a limousine, and, no matter how brilliant he may be, he is useless, he has lost his spell...
...psychology of the authors of the red parody is somewhat unusual. Its brilliant color made it sell like wild fire; red magazines were sticking out of everybody's pockets on Wednesday afternoon. But the attempted blow proved a boomerang. For every copy of the parody sold,--the figure is said to approach 1,500,--a copy of the real magazine was also sold. The satirists gave the true paper the best possible free advertising and undoubtedly doubled if not trebled the circulation of the first number...
...excess of this quality that prevented him from gaining the scholarly reputation to which his brilliant abilities entitled him. He was really too unselfish to become a specialist, too much interested in his fellow-men to concentrate on a single field. His friends often used to remonstrate with him about this, and urged him to devote himself to productive scholarship, as the surest road to academic promotion. He would invariably admit the force of their arguments, and occasionally make an heroic effort to get started on a monograph; then some 'chore' would turn up, which others might regard...