Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Open Wound." Only the colors of the flags of Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland are different, the design is the same-a cross on a plain field*-and wealthy Stockholm with her many lagoons, beauteous "Venice of the North," was a brilliant forest of cross-flags last week as the President of Finland alighted at Bromma Airport with brisk, energetic Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko...
Palfrey, who is a southpaw, played a smooth game, but the cleverness of Lowman unnerved him. Although he dropped the first set after putting up a game battle, he made a brilliant comeback in the second set and came very close to taking the title away from Lowman...
...football, linemen do the dirty work but the backs get the bouquets. This year, as usual, pre-season football prognosticators focused their attention on the outstanding college backs of the year. Most experts agreed that this year's crop was the most brilliant collection of all time: Michigan's Harmon and Kromer, Purdue's Brock and Brown, Notre Dame's Saggau and Zontini, Tennessee's Cafego, Pitt's Cassiano, Fordham's Eshmont, Duke's McAfee, many & many another...
...reflective witnesses, however, even the best "liberal" thinking has seemed about as far behind the times as Montesquieu's and Jefferson's was ahead of theirs. Parkes's book catches up with history. A young (34) history instructor at New York University, previously known for a brilliant History of Mexico and for a few remarkably lucid essays, Parkes has tested the dogma of the Left in the light of history and reason, drawn his conclusions, brought them into sharp focus with political facts, and thereby outlined a progressive program with at least theoretical drive and good sense...
...then 23. Within the next 19 years he fought nearly 500 battles, over an area almost the size of the U. S., twice fled to exile after complete disaster, made his comeback in some of the most spectacular forced marches and brilliant battles in military history. Simultaneously he battled his compatriots to establish a democracy which would be foolproof against dictatorship...