Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Densmore Shute, of the Llanerch Country Club, near Philadelphia. In three days of marvelously consistent golf over St. Andrews' angry bunkers and deceptive fairways, Shute had scored four par 733 in a row. Wood had caught up after a 77 on his first round, mainly because of a brilliant 68 on his third, with putts for birdies on six holes...
Although his loss would be a great one were it only for his work in the Fine Arts, he was also known for his brilliant contributions to literature; he was particularly interested in medieval and twentieth-century writings. In recent years Professor Porter developed a special interest in Ireland, its art and its literature. He was a poet as well as a scholar...
...voices the sentiment of, I believe, by actual count, 1/25th of the student body who call themselves liberalists and contribute to the college about nothing but destructive criticism and adolescent judgment-for instance, asking that one of their number be made one of the trustees was one of their brilliant ideas, a 19-year-old trustee! MARY ELIZABETH RANSOM...
...spread from Harvard until today there are over 100,000 students in 356 colleges in the United States under instruction. Courses at Cambridge in biology, chemistry, and geology followed quickly in those days when Boston was floating on the flood-tide of a renaissance of intellectual interests, and the brilliant foreign professor Louis Agassiz intoxicated the sages of Concord with natural history. The gradual enlargement of these courses into a regular Summer School of Arts and Sciences and its subsequent growth was but the work of time...
Married, Albert J. Beveridge, son of the late brilliant U. S. Senator Albert Jeremiah Beveridge of Indiana; and Elizabeth Lincoln Scaife of Milton, Mass.; in Milton...