Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, N. Y. Nov. 16--Led by Captain Pen Hallowell, the Harvard cross country team today flashed through to a brilliant and overwhelming victory in the annual I. C. 4A meet on the Van Cortlandt Park course, making a total of 44 points...
News that legally brilliant Sir John Simon had been made Foreign Secretary struck even his Liberal friends last week with some surprise. Sir John, in his great role as Chairman of the Indian Statutory Commission two years ago, made a hairsplitting, legalistic report on India which deliberately ignored St. Gandhi and the whole Indian National Congress. This report "missed the boat," as Britons say, became obsolete before it was published. Last week the Liberal Manchester Guardian said of Liberal Sir John: "Foreign affairs require no less insight than Indian affairs. Qualities which make a great Foreign Secretary are not purely...
...huge hands on a Minnesota punt and made Northwestern's last long touchdown run, making the score 32 to 14, making spectators feel sure that in its remaining games against Iowa and Indiana, Northwestern could score almost at will or at the whim of its capricious, brilliant backs. A half-million people watched the dozen biggest games of the week. Largest crowd of the year-100,000-saw Southern California's Mohler, Shaver, Pinckert and Musick, the best backfield on the Pacific Coast, smother Stanford at Los Angeles, 19 to o. With 4! min. left to play. Harvard...
...weather is favorable, it may be possible to photograph the shower. As the stream of meteers is so rich that it takes several years to pass by the earth, astronomers have been on the watch for it since 1929. If, on any one of the following nights, a brilliant display is noted, then Dr. Fisher declares that the main part of the shower will be over, and only faint signs of it will be seen next year. A special feature of the Leonids is what is known as a "fire-ball," but is in reality simply a large meteer, which...
...brilliant 96-yard run, which started when A. J. Lupien '32, Harvard right half back, deftly intercepted an Abington forward pass on the Harvard 4-yard line, resulted in Harvard's only score...