Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speaks over the radio. He publishes as many volumes of sermons in a year as were published in a decade prior to 1890. He is about 54 years old. "It is doubtful if there has been another period in American history so opulent in the number of strong and brilliant preachers as our own." Thus, in presenting a book on U. S. preachers,* writes Edgar De Witt Jones, Detroit minister (Disciples of Christ, Central Woodward Church). A onetime president of his church's international body, onetime Detroit Newsman, at present a correspondent for the Christian Century, Author Jones knows...
...educated in Vladivostok and made his career the winning of China for Communism and the Soviet. He went to China in 1923 to negotiate a Chinese-Soviet treaty of recognition and agreement. Accepted as Ambassador at Peking in 1924 he worked hard for two years to accomplish his dream. Brilliant talker, genial host, Leo Karakhan is also one of the few athletic Soviet leaders: he plays first-rate tennis. His house in Peiping became a meeting place for the intelligentsia of north China. He picked the growing Nationalist movement as the coming power in China, gave it money and support...
What Professor Born had done, it appeared, was to revise the equations of Scotland's brilliant James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79) to accommodate the concepts of modern quantum theory. Clothing electrical phenomena in mathematical language, Maxwell discovered electromagnetic waves by inventing them out of his own head. He then correlated electromagnetic waves and light waves. But his equations were based on the assumption that these waves could represent any amount of radiant energy, depending on conditions at the source...
...game, encouraged her to enter her first tournament at 16. At 17, Miss Van Wie beat Glenna Collett in the Florida East Coast championship. The 73 with which she beat her again, in the national final last year, was the best round she ever played. Impeccable as a stylist, brilliant with her irons and steady with her woods. Miss Van Wie is not always as sure on the greens as she was last week. Once she won a match from Maureen Orcutt when, after she missed a putt of 12 in., Miss Orcutt missed...
Dana's years as editor were the years of the nation's lusty westward expansion and of governmental corruption from Washington down to the meanest village. From his famed corner office, piled high with books and newspapers, he fought corruption with brilliant and penetrating satire, lambasted the Tweed Ring, the Credit Mobilier, the Whiskey Ring. When Pennsylvania's corrupt State Treasurer W. H. Kemble wrote a letter to a claim agent in Washington introducing a self-seeking friend, Dana pounced upon the last line in the latter-"He understands addition, division, and silence"-as the platform...