Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...described certain actual addresses at the sessions as "brilliant, objective, and peace seeking," and declared that "plenty of criticism has been levelled at totalitarian systems...
...American's 152 land planes (the flying boats have been retired) fly 61,038 route miles. The line's safety record is one of the best, thanks in great part to Vice President André Priester, 57, a brilliant engineer who for 22 years has been in charge of Pan Am's planes, maintenance, traffic guides, etc., and is fondly called "our Steinmetz...
...team performance, which gave Yale a total of 75 points in the meet, 48 more than second-place Rutgers and 68 more than seventh-place Harvard was matched only by the brilliant swimming of Joe Verdour of LaSalle. Verdeur won the 300-yard individual relay for his third straight year and set a new intercollegiate record by speeding the distance in 3:25.2, 70 feet in front of Yale's McMullen...
...Extravagant Wife. Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's brilliant economic boss, was on hand for the OEEC talks. The U.S. Marshall Planners had told the European nations to get their financial houses in order, and Britain, once threatened with collapse, had done this better than any other. For this success, Sir Stafford praised his own brand of austerity, a controlled system of trade which combined high exports with low imports of consumer goods...
...opus, The Waste Land. What's in a Word? U.S.-born T.S. Eliot migrated to England in 1914, and quickly became what he is today, the English-speaking world's most distinguished poet and literary critic, one of England's most conservative conservatives, and its most brilliant spokesman for Anglo-Catholicism, which he adopted in 1927. His finest critical works (Selected Essays; The Idea of a Christian Society) were addressed exclusively to literary and religious intellectuals...