Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dean pointed out that 47 per cent of the graduate school residents, a slight but encouraging increase, did full time work toward advanced degrees, and that the experiment of relieving exceptionally brilliant scholars from working their way through had functioned satisfactorily in its first two years. He noted, however, that there were still 409 students unable to devote their entire time to study because of the necessity of earning money...
...report called attention to the fact that last year a comparatively large number of students received scholarship help for their first year of graduate work. This was taken as a reflection of "the feeling of many members of the Faculty that now and then a brilliant Senior gives more promise of becoming a productive scholar than many a graduate student who has acquired high grades in more advanced work...
Easily the outstanding man on the ice with his two goals and an assist, Ralph Pope was the spark which drove the newly formed third line to its brilliant display of hockey. Captain George Ford, although he did not figure in the scoring, was again ragging the puck all over the ice and keeping the vaunted Queens attack from getting started...
...Suits passed a brilliant arc between two electrodes of a welding torch in an atmosphere of hydrogen. This was magnified and projected in color on a frosted glass screen. The engineers saw the images of the electrodes three inches apart, with the broad, vivid flow of the arc two inches wide. Then Dr. Suits produced an arc in an atmosphere of nitrogen. The arc band was pale, thin. But when he stepped up the nitrogen pressure to 1,200 Ib. per sq. in., the arc thickened and brightened until it was indistinguishable from that produced in hydrogen...
Disillusioned thus, the first-night audience, which paid $10 per seat, soon was disillusioned about the picture's other an nounced qualifications. Despite the rec ommendations of Europe and Venice, The Robber Symphony is an incredibly inept execution of a brilliant idea...