Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gropius, considered one of the world's most brilliant designers of industrial units and housing projects, came from Germany to join the Faculty of the Architectural School a mouth...
...your report of the proceedings had before the U. S. Supreme Court, in the Associated Press case (TIME, April 19), you refer to the "brilliant legal argument" made by John W. Davis, attorney for the AP; no reference whatsoever was made as to counsel for the respondent. I was present in the bar section of the Court room during the submission of the case and heard the carefully prepared, and if I may borrow the expression, "brilliant legal argument" of one Charles E. Wyzanski, counsel for the Guild; I also listened to the loosely-worded "oration" delivered by John...
...thinks that shipping, not selling, is what embroiled the U. S. in the War. When the great peace tide set in two years ago and extremists began talking of slamming trade doors tight shut against another war, he suggested cash & carry as an alternative. Contemptuously, brilliant "Bernie" Baruch calls his cash & carry principle "scuttle & run." He wants peace, but his real idea of how to keep it is to have the U. S. so well-prepared to fight that no nation will dare to antagonize it. No man knows better than the onetime chairman of the War Industries Board that...
...conservative Harvard resentment toward some of the recent utterances of the Dean-designate, the question "Is Landis really the man?" needs a bit of public airing. For to many who were profoundly pleased at the selection of Mr. Landis a few months ago, on the basis of his brilliant legal thinking and his diplomatic handling of the S.E.C., it comes as distinct shock that the new Dean of the Law School has shown doubts about the illegality of the sit-down strike and has come out in favor of the Supreme Court change...
Early Saturday morning Columbia had a brilliant track past, great expectations, but not an immediately bright future. Winner by far of the Indoor I.C.4 A. meet of scarcely two months ago, the Eagles saw themselves interchanged with a revitalized Yale team Saturday in the third Heptagonal Games...