Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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British money has always talked decisively in Portugal and last week it was appropriate that Mr. William Shepherd Morrison, exceptionally brilliant Financial Secretary to the British Treasury, should stroll over to the Foreign Office and there assume chairmanship of a conference of 26 European States who have pledged non-interference in the Spanish Civil War (TIME, Sept. 7 et ante). Since it is through Portugal that the principal munitions supplies of the Spanish Whites arrive, and since the Portuguese Government under no conceivable circumstances would have failed to send a representative to the conference if pressed...
Friedrich Bergius, though he is one of Germany's most brilliant chemists, may some day be the most bitterly hated by that country's common people. He is a specialist in those technologies to which necessity is not only mother but sedulous nurse. Vivid in the German mind is a hateful memory of the Ersatz (substitute) foods consumed in great quantities during and after the War. If natural food again becomes scarce in Germany, Chemist Bergius will doubtless be in charge of producing Ersatz food for empty German stomachs. Lately he has worked out on a mass-production...
Women tennists lack the stubbornness as well as the stamina of men. Even Helen Jacobs, most tenacious tennist of her sex, was discouraged after that. In the third set the brilliant game with which she had beaten England's Kay Stammers the afternoon before went completely to pieces and she won only four points in the first four games. She got the next two games but that was merely the brave gesture of a player who knew she was beaten. The crowd, which had been rooting for Miss Marble, showed its understanding by rooting for the old champion...
Professor Elie Cartan of the University of Paris replied in behalf of all the delegates present in French. The small Frenchman with a snow white Van Dkye, dressed in a brilliant scarlet robe declared, "In this land where the development of techniques based on scientific knowledge reached its height, you have always held that science, apart from its practical applications, has a value of its own as a means of culture for the soul; that, like the Humanities, it has its place among the highest of liberating disciplines...
...Balatoc mine was a $500,000 hole in the ground, which borrowed $250,000 more, paid it back from earnings in less than two years and by 1934 was paying $2,000,000 a year in dividends. Several other mines have had smaller but equally brilliant records, accompanied by tales of Tom-Dick-&-Harry made rich overnight...