Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter of fact, whether or not such protective measures as the proposed administrative corps project involves are provided to those trained college graduates who enter America's public service, I stand squarely behind the belief that a brilliant opportunity for service and achievement lies ahead for the trained college graduate of 1936 who accepts the interesting opportunities today afforded by the public service. Regardless of the protection of Civil Service or other efforts to combat spoils system practices, such young men are in demand not only in government, but also in public organizations (such as the growing number of associations...
Winter sports run riot at the Fine Arts this week, restrained only by a tenuous plot and some inconsequential German dialogue. Brilliant performances of skiing, slalom (scooting downhill along sinuous paths among obstacles), ski-joring (skiing along the level with a horse doing the pulling), bob-sled racing, and skating are crammed into this virile, carefree picture called after one of the sports "Slalom...
...presentation of Cambridge and Harvard, replete with old anecdotes and mythical and familiar figures is a delight to follow. President Dunster, Max Keezer, John the Orangeman, Memorial Hall, "Copey," "Kitty," and the Yard are blended in a brilliant panorama. He makes Harvard the incongruous yet integrated mixture of intellect and individuality, of rum and sophomoric rebellion, of great wealth and simplicity, that it appears to the undergraduate...
...solemn inanities of academic rigmarole, and her satire-especially of conversation at the dons' high table-is kindly but rich. The Author ought to know her Oxford. She was born there (1893), where her father was headmaster of the Cathedral Choir School. She was one of the most brilliant scholars of her year at Somerville College and one of the first to be awarded an Oxford degree (she took a First in Medieval Literature). In London she got a job writing copy in an advertising agency, worked at detective stories on the side. In 1926 she married Capt. Atherton...
Captain Ed Gerry of the Crimson opened to the scoring by a brilliant goal which as quickly followed by a tally from the ballot of Skiddy Von Stade. After this, the Blue riders dominated the evening's play, especially in the last chukker when they ran up seven goals to two for the editors...