Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aptly illustrating this depraved attitude is the inability of the tutorial staff to synthesize the course-work to the undergraduates in the field of the sciences. Many of the tutors are brilliant men; some are far advanced in their chosen rut; but when the tutor can escape to tutoring from beneath the Danioclean threat of research and then more research, he does not appear to be required or to even feel the need of establishing in his tutee's mind some coordination among the roiling details of the student's incipient techniques...
...Italy," wrote Critic Give Bell last April in The London Studio, "has not produced a great painter since Canaletto" (1697-1768), but before Canaletto Italy produced enough great painters for all time. To set forth the latter fact spectacularly to France and the world seemed to Henry de Jouvenel, brilliant French diplomat, journalist and Italophile, an admirable way for Italy and France to clasp hands more tightly against Adolf Hitler. Last week he had assembled in Paris' Petit Palais a collection of Italian old masters that was in fact "the greatest the world has ever seen...
...newspaper with the world's biggest circulation is published in London: not by the blustery Rothermere (see p. 21), not by the brilliant, impish Beaverbrook nor by the rugged Camrose. Those three -particularly the first two-are conspicuous national characters, living richly in town and country, moving momentously across Britain's political stage. But for publishing shrewdness they all yield to a neat, stumpy London-born Jew named Julius Salter Elias, who sold newspapers on London's streets at 13, never wrote a newspaper story in his life, at 65 is not mentioned...
...revealed no drinking water. Further difficulties arose when the men tried to blast a ship channel between Wilkes and Peale, to facilitate unloading the supply ship North Haven. The hard coral barrier proved so resistant to dynamite that the project was abandoned. Meanwhile on Wake Island proper, a brilliant electric light system was in operation, and the Pan American pioneers looked forward to "movies and all the comforts of home" by June...
...SYNDICATE MURDERS-William R. Randall-Greenberg ($2). A young journalist and a brilliant Jewish detective become involved in a war between the gangs and an anti-crime brain trust...