Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Connecticut. Between brilliant lines of the Governor's Foot Guard old (72) Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby'') Cross, one-time Yale dean, marched into the Capitol at Hartford last week to be received by the General Assembly and sworn in for his third term as Governor. An hour later he marched out again, still unsworn. Deadlocked between Republicans and Democrats with three Socialists holding the balance, the Senate continued to take ballot after futile ballot to elect a clerk. Governor Cross went ahead with his Inaugural Ball that night, was sworn in late next day after the Socialists...
Freed from financial temptation by a fat inheritance and prepared by governmental studies at Yale, Oxford and Columbia, Robert Moses has given his whole life to able public service. Largest single monument to his brilliant, non-partisan career in New York State and City administrative jobs is Jones Beach State Park on the south shore of Long Island. He would seem to be the ideal public servant from the standpoint of Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal. But the campaign which dark, dynamic Mr. Moses waged last autumn as Republican nominee for Governor of New York was not calculated...
...incident was referred for settlement to two commissioners of arbitration appointed under the U. S.-British liquor treaty of 1924. One was precise, deliberate Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter of the U. S. Supreme Court. The other was the Canadian Supreme Court's bland, blue-eyed, brilliant Justice Lyman Poore Duff, who relaxes for sleep with calculus problems and long corresponded in Greek with the late Lord Haldane. Years passed. Justice Duff was upped to Chief Justice of Canada. Justice Van Devanter saw burgeon in the U. S. a New Deal. Prohibition passed and the I'm Alone...
...less capable would not suffer any real deprivation, since, by definition, they are the ones who do not take advantage of tutorial opportunities anyhow. Third, the time which tutors now waste on unresponsive students could be employed productively on their own research and writing. Fourth, the promotion of brilliant younger men would inject new blood into the Faculty, and at the same time would reduce the turnover in tutorial personnel, giving the tutorial staff a semblance of permanence which it has hitherto lacked. Finally, the advancement of the best tutors would encourage all the rest, since it would at last...
After piling up a 3-point lead by brilliant play in the first period, the Varsity pucksters fell before the accelerating onslaught of the Boston Olymic Club's sextet at the Arena last night by a score of 7-4. The second and third periods were marked by sloppy work and offside plays. The Crimson suffered only one penalty while the Olmpics were taking seven...