Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brilliant but not unblemished, the career of Sir Richard Anderson Squires, Premier of Newfoundland, took a sharp, sensational downward twist last week. By one of the largest Opposition majorities ever piled up in a Dominion election 74% of Newfoundland's ballot casters voted to oust Squires...
Always addicted to imitation, the cinema industry enjoyed no fewer than six "cycles" last year. United Artists' Arrowsmith, a brilliant picture about a doctor, caused two other pictures about physicians to be manufactured. There were cycles about reporters, lawyers, monsters, mothers compelled to practice prostitution to support their children, Broadway colyumists. A politician cycle, a Hollywood cycle (see p. 26) are forthcoming...
...gardens (TIME, Oct. 6, 1930), then despatched Author Buck to Sumatra with a director and two cameramen to take pictures of the procedure. Director Clyde E. Elliott knew that people like wild animal cinemas for the same reason that they like the tigers in the circus. Remembering UFA's brilliant short of a fight between a mongoose and a cobra, he saw to it that there were plenty of fights in Bring 'Em Back Alive...
...however, his value to the department here at Harvard is difficult to overrate. Harvard has, particularly among "the old guard", a very respectable number of scholars whose contribution to economics has been invaluable, and among the younger members of the department several whose work holds out promise of a brilliant future. But it is in no sense disparaging to say that there is a great need for a theorist of the established reputation and recognized ability of Professor Schumpeter. Aside from the prestige which his name lends to the department, his presence and distinctive approach to economic problems should...
...Triangular meet in which he established a new record of 33 seconds for the 200-yard dash. He ran a smart conservative race, letting the opposition wear itself out and finishing with a fine burst of speed to beat Captain Noyes of Dartmouth to the tape after running several brilliant time trials. During the spring season he injured a leg muscle and consequently was unable to run in the Yale meet on May 21. At present he is training for the Olympic tryouts and will accompany the Harvard team to the Intercollegiates in California during the middle of this month...