Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Minnow Rawls had one more surprise left. She clambered onto the 10-ft. springboard, began manipulating her tiny sunburnt person toward the water as though she were impersonating the knife in a game of mumblety-peg. A brilliant half-gaynor helped her get the points she needed to win the event, 78.64 to 77.75, from goldilocked Georgia Coleman, U. S. diving champion since...
...most brilliant successes in the Nicaraguan campaign," President Hoover awarded the Navy Cross to Lieut. Samuel S. Jack, U. S. Marine Corps, of Glendale, Ariz. In April 1931, Aviator Jack had bombed a rebel camp at Puerto Cabezas, later directed a relief patrol to the siege of Logtown, all under heavy fire...
...dark afternoon. A grey drizzle made the court slippery and the bad footing seemed to bother Crawford. It did not bother Vines. After a week of good but not brilliant tennis, he suddenly found his game. His backhand, weak the day before, was suddenly a magnificent offensive stroke. His drives lashed the uttermost corners of Crawford's back court. Crawford said afterward that Vines's first serve "seemed to hit the court the same instant it left the racket." Vines followed it to the net and smashed Crawford's returns so hard that the ball kicked...
Sidney B. Wood, to whom Shields defaulted in last year's final, and Ellsworth Vines were the two the London galleries wanted most to see. Wood, who did poorly on last year's Davis Cup team, was playing brilliant tennis again. He had three easy matches before he played Gregory Mangin, U. S. Indoor champion, and won in straight sets to reach the quarter finals. U. S. Champion Vines, whose game this year has veered from merely erratic to downright bad, wobbled through his early matches but won them all: one against Harry Hopman of Australia...
...heroines of Authoress Carlisle's book. In We Begin she paints, with meticulous nicety of detail, an historical mural of extraordinary scope. Following muralist technique, she manages to make her characters striking but not too personal, her details vivid but not too bright. Only a theatrical ending tarnishes her brilliant scenario...