Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Observatory has received over thirty letters in answer to their announcement requesting all who saw the brilliant meteor in the southwestern sky last Wednesday night to write in details concerning size, shape, color, tail, duration of light, and accompanying noise. The notice even evoked a letter from Los Angeles describing an astral visitor, but since meteors are never visible until within 100 miles of the earth when there is sufficient atmosphere to afford combustion and the curvature of the earth is approximately seven inches for every mile, the meteor could not have been the one that P. M. Millman...
...statesman of the seventeenth century in an undying personality. The great Duke stands there, hand outstretched with its tendril fingers searching the air. There is the thin Castillian face sharpened by the neat goatee and the craggy nose. And there are too, the imperious, mocking eyes. Over this brilliant figure is thrown the red robe of the most enduring and majestic institution that the world has even seen. It is a convass that stands like a ray of sunlight among the darker imperial shadows of Winterhalter and the more obsequious court painters...
...boldest king that England knew. And for all this he died, slain in his own Cathedral. But one doesn't really know Becket until he has left his histories and turned to another of the arts. A poet has left behind a picture of him as clear and brilliant as the painter's Richelieu. Tennyson shaped this solid Anglo-Saxon in the mould of flesh and blood...
Mentally groomed by Coach Farrell's psychology of optimism and determination, every prospective Harvard point winner will enter the brilliant I. C. 4A track competition at the 258th Field Artillery in New York next Saturday in the best of the shape physically and mentally, and with the firm conviction that chances for a Crimson victory are just as bright as those of Cornell, N. Y. U., or Pennsylvania...
Captain Record, who will defend his crown in the 70-yard hurdle race, will have stiff competition from a brilliant field including MacDonald of Holy Cross, Laughlin of Bowdoin, and Healey of N. Y. U. The great Crimson timber-topper, however, is almost unbeatable at his best and is concentrating on his specialty alone, thereby remaining the favorite...