Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strong at 70 but financially feeble. Mr. Wertheim kept hands off The Nation's policy, which was shaped by Editor Freda Kirchwey and her colleagues, Joseph Wood Krutch and Max Lerner. Under the Foundation's patronage, The Nation treated itself to a new format, the cartoons of brilliant David Low. With pinko-liberalism rampant in the land, circulation began to soar...
Comments on some of the men were: Lake, McIlwain, Langer -- brilliant scholars and lecturers. Karpovich: now examiner, excellent tutor. Baxter. Forceful lecturer, sometimes gives opinions as facts; scholar, good tutor. Ferguson: scholar; dull but good lecturer with small groups; better on Greece than Rome. Haring: scholar; covers large field well. Morison: scholar, good lecturer. Brinton, Buck, McKay, Jordan: good lecturers; excellent tutors. Schlesinger: scholar; most of time to graduate students; dull lecturer. Merk: careful; good lecturer; scholar. Doolin: poor lecturer; excellent tutor. Evans, Fairbank, Gleason: good tutors
...with sloppy play, the crowd estimated as the largest this season, was constantly on edge as the Mitchellmen made seemingly impossible catches in the field. In the third frame, Owen twice raced deep into right field to snare line-drives, destined for extra bases. Mal McTernen made two equally brilliant circus catches in the center garden...
...band of Midwest bank-robbers whose uncanny efficiency suggests that they are in league with Government officials. Lieutenant Perry gets off to a flying start by falling in love with the gang's most eligible female member, Lil Duryea (Barbara Stanwyck) and is on the way to a brilliant solution of the case when President McKinley is shot, leaving Perry with no proof that he is a Government agent. Getting Perry out of jail entails the assistance not only of Lil but also of President Theodore Roosevelt and Admiral Dewey, who rescue him by means of an old-fashioned...
Succeeding the tightening of the admission requirements with a revision of the course of study in the Law School, he faculty committee has accomplished a work of brilliant reform. The telescoping of the basic principles and cases of law into the first two years and the allowing of more flexibility in choice of subjects to third-year students are two new policies that will show the individual at an early date the various fields of specialization open to him and give the opportunity for original work in one particular field. Each man will be encouraged to select a course containing...