Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second half, after a five-minute rest, Nazro of Harvard scored a try and Meiklejohn converted. A penalty kick by Meiklejohn after a Cambridge forward pass cut the Cambridge lead down to eight points. What followed were three Cambridge tries in quick succession, one of them on a brilliant play which neatly illustrated one of rugby's advantages over football. R. C. S. Dick, Cambridge centre three-quarter, running for the Harvard goal, saw two tacklers coming headon. He kicked the ball in the air, ran between the tacklers, caught the ball as it came down ten yards from...
...brilliant scholars, three of them graduates of Harvard College, will come to the University next fall as Junior Fellows to continue their studies, free from all financial worry, as a result of their appointment yesterday to the Society of Fellows, the last creation of President emeritus Lowell...
Last week, in Gary Ross's Manhattan studio, Zelda Fitzgerald showed her pictures, made her latest bid for fame. The work of a brilliant introvert, they were vividly painted, intensely rhythmic. A pinkish reminiscence of her ballet days showed figures with enlarged legs and feet-a trick she may have learned from Picasso. An impression of a Dartmouth football game made the stadium look like the portals of a theatre, the players like dancers. Chinese Theatre was a gnarled mass of acrobats with an indicated audience for background. There were two impressionistic portraits of her husband, a verdant Spring...
...Wiseman is a Briton who has been a partner only five years. Today much of the work is done by Elisha Walker, onetime ally of Amadeo Peter Giannini, and by able Benjamin Buttenwieser, who, as manager of the firm's syndicate department, is considered one of the most brilliant young men in Wall Street...
...first Governor of New York to secure regulation of public utilities was a brilliant young reformer named Charles Evans Hughes. To get it, the man who one day was to become Chief Justice of the U. S. went directly to the voters. Alfred E. Smith used the same tactics in his long dogged fight for more drastic regulation. While at Albany Franklin D. Roosevelt set up a Power Authority to distribute State power, but in Washington last month his plan was shelved when the U. S. Senate refused to ratify a treaty which would permit hydro-electric development...