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Word: brilliant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State House from January 13 to February 8. Most of the spectators were strong Van Waters partisans and didn't try to suppress their feelings, it looked to them as though the case was a shameless example of political muggery, for the defendant had a long and brilliant record in reformatory work; she was internationally famous for progressive techniques in treating delinquents...

Author: By David II. Wright, | Title: Six-Month Fight Ends In Van Waters Ouster | 2/16/1949 | See Source »

...acres, lived in his father's one-story house that was built of sun-baked brick. When he went to the seminary in a nearby town, many of his fellow students looked down on him as a peasant's son. He was an intense, unsmiling and brilliant student...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY-: Their Tongues Cut Off | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...this age of Hollywood blood-and-thunder war movies, all of which preach some sort of a hackneyed message, there is nothing more refreshing than to see a brilliant war film like the twelve year-old "Grand Illusion." Starring Erich von Stroheim and Jean Gabin, this old-French epic concerns the fate of a group of French prisoners in Germany during the first World...

Author: By Arthur R. G. solmssen, | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/10/1949 | See Source »

...Equally brilliant was Captain Dave Key, who also got five points and played his finest game of the season...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Varsity Hockey Team Trips B.U., 10-8, in Arena Brawl | 2/10/1949 | See Source »

Goalie Ted Cook's brilliant net tending probably kept Brown's score down. Playing the entire game, he guarded the nets so well that he made nearly 3-0 saves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Sextet Encounters Strong Bruin Team Today | 2/9/1949 | See Source »

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