Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When an opportunity to hit does arise, Harlow's pupils will find themselves considerably hampered by the absence of the brilliant Johnny Adzigian from the key post at left half back, the running and passing back...
...these were the only solutions to the War and Peace problem which these men could think of, then we must come to the conclusion that the first of them is a brilliant pessimist, and the last two are idealistic fools...
Could the magnanimous and constructive engineer who dealt with Huns be given to anger? Could the one man who went between all the loosed war dogs of Europe and kept the trust of all, be unable to hold his own temper? Could the brilliant and tender Quaker who rebuilt human Belgium and France, who rebuilt and re-established the lives of the families of his late enemies, be an angry man? Could the untiring diplomatist and spiritual servant who never let one strand of his delicate relationships between militarists and nationalists and intriguers, drunk warlords and war-led, sadists, sentimentalists...
...turns out to be a brilliant, scoring combine, Harlow will be widely praised for his intelligence in taking a stop which is revolutionary to say the least. If, on the other hand, this hastily assembled eleven falls apart under pressure, he will be equally widely blamed for destroying a "safe" outfit...
...Pablo Picasso are wealthy men. But poor crazy Vincent van Gogh sold only two paintings in his life, received $4 for the first, $80 for the second. He also was able to sell about 20 drawings at an average price of $1.25 each. Today his brilliant landscapes fetch as much as $50,000 apiece...