Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American College of Sofia, Athens College. Slowly Near Easterners overcame their fixed idea that all foreign ventures in their lands were for purposes of political or commercial advantage. In time the U. S. colleges, independent but banded together since 1919 in the Near East College Association, were acclaimed as brilliant beacons in the Near East march toward Western enlightenment. Said the late Alumnus Stephan Panaretoff, when he was Bulgarian Minister to the U. S.: "A single graduate of Robert College in his native town or community means more by the influence he exerts than ten college graduates here in America...
...years past, it has surmounted brilliant discussions of the month's leading periodicals. I would gladly discuss any magazine that I could find. The only one that I have at hand, however, is Esquire. If you think that I am going to give President Conant the chance to padlock our door so that we have to crawl in the window you are mistaken...
...most prominent feature was the Ford building. And at 8 p. m. on opening day, President Roosevelt from Washington radioed that he hoped to get out to San Diego's show this summer. Following the Presidential address, the lights went on. ''Chicago went in for brilliant glitter," San Diego's newshawks had observed. "San Diego will aim at soft glow...
...Anthracite" without getting dirty. Pennsylvania Railroad told ad-readers all about its signal system. Baltimore & Ohio dramatized its operation in a series of adventures (all with happy endings) involving personnel and passengers. Chesapeake & Ohio shrewdly publicized itself as the road surveyed and "founded" by George Washington, made a brilliant paragraph of advertising history with its kitten "Chessie" snugly tucked in a berth ("Sleep Like a Kitten...
...might well be trying to find a standard which will give Harvard insurance against the declining ability of brilliant teachers as they advance past 40 in the classroom. He does believe that any man on the Faculty of Arts must show that he can talk constructively on something. Certainly critical comment on his subject such as essays, books, reviews, etc., will keep him alive to his subject, not research in the true sense of the term. The difference between this and the science standard is difficult to understand, but fundamental...