Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite his extreme youth and his long absence from Harvard, no man is receiving more serious consideration as the new Dean of the Law School than 37-year-old Lloyd Kirkham Garrison '19, Wisconsin's brilliant legal executive...
...decided to go after the Republican nomination for Mayor (TIME, Sept. 16). Philadelphians, curious to know which member of the onetime partnership had been its political brains, watched their contest eagerly. So did outsiders interested in seeing how the third city of the land would choose between a brilliant but colorless student of finance and a seasoned, shouting, arm-waving politician...
...maze of horse cabs across Broadway. Because his Aunt Ellen thought, "He got the callin'," Pat Hayes was sent to a school, later a college, run by the Christian Brothers. There he made friends with a younger, livelier lad named George Mundelein. Indifferent at games, Hayes was a brilliant student whose businesslike manner got him the highest undergraduate honor, the Moderatorship of the Sacred Heart Society. He went on to St. Joseph's Seminary (Troy, N. Y.) and Catholic University in Washington. After ordination in 1892 his rise in his church was rapid. A priest who never had a parish...
...Dean Pound's resignation brings sorrow to lawyers everywhere. A brilliant scholar in fields broadly philosophic as well as technically legal, at home equally in foreign jurisprudence and American law, for years a force in legal education, he yet found time in an unusually active career to lead all movements for law reform and improvement. I trust his withdrawal from administrative duty indicates no diminution of his public service, and that for many years to come he will continue to be a national and international leader of our profession...
needs seemed much nearer fulfillment, needs seemed much nearer fulfillment, when the rumor arose that Franny Lane, brilliant No. 3 back of two seasons ago, would be able to report for practice this week instead of October 1. None of the H. A. A. officials were in town over the weekend to shed any light on the rumor...