Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After that, the teams settled down to a game which was sometimes brilliant, strategic football, sometimes a sort of exaggerated water-polo. Harvard's attack, with Jack Crickard running the ball three times out of four, got under way in the second period. Yale stopped it, as it had stopped Princeton's the week before, once in the 13-yd. line and again 2 yd. from the Yale goal. In the third period, Lassiter began to find soft spots in the right side of the Harvard line. In Yale's 55-yd. march to its second touchdown...
...original palace edition of an anthology of prose from authors of all ages down to the end of the 12th century, compiled for the Emperor K'ang-hsi, is printed on specially treated paper in multiple colors, using black, red, yellow, and green inks to produce a brilliant display. The colors have remained fast to the present day. Many monumental works were produced in the reign K'anghsi, who was a great patron of letters. In the Harvard Chinese library is the original palace edition of a concordance of phrases found in classical, poetical, historical, and philosophical literature, arranged...
...steps, till he was tackled on Yale's 20-yd. line. This time, his mistake was not important: the next play was another pass, Kadlic to Fairman, which made a touchdown. Peter Fortune kicked the goal. With five minutes left, there was just time for the blunder or the brilliant play that usually decides Princeton-Yale games. Neither one occurred and the score was still tied, 7 to 7, when the game ended...
...when he sees someone crawling toward him in a mask mistakes his rescuer for a German soldier. Director Pabst never stops emphasizing his theme?that for miners, gas and war, not each other, are common enemies? but he does it with a photographic vigor that makes Kameradschaft resemble a brilliant newsreel much more than a dramatized tract. The picture has been successful abroad, where it was released last winter. With English subtitles to translate its sparse dialogue it is likely to enjoy a more limited success...
...above the best bid placed by Mr. Kingsbury's Standard (TIME, Nov. 14). But last week Mr. Kingsbury, who relishes practical jokes, chortled a good last chortle. For the Richfield banking creditors' committee decided to accept the Standard offer and Mr. Sinclair, considered the boldest and most brilliant of operators in oildom, seemed outmaneuvered when he withdrew his company...