Word: brilliant
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...most occasions the Bulldogs' orthodox 'T' attack has been adequate-and at times even brilliant as in the 17-7 win over Columbia and in the first half of the Dartmouth game. Discounting the mud-splattered Brown fiasco, however, it has been found wanting in two instances against Wisconsin and Princeton. The answer both times seemed to be the all-round edge of the rival front ranks...
Mudville has nothing on Yale when it comes to brilliant outlooks this Friday, for the Crimson's big winner of this fall, the Varsity soccer team, meets the Bulldog as the odds-on favorite to win its eighth of the year against one defeat. While the football team has had its moments of glory and the cross-country team has wallowed in defeats, wee Scot James MacDonald's booters have amassed the best soccer record in decades...
...made for great deeds is not popular except at critical times. Although when in contact with him one is conscious of a superiority which compels respect, he is seldom liked. Moreover, his faculties, shaped for heroic feats, despise the pliability, the intrigues and the parade through which most brilliant careers are achieved in peacetime. And so he would be condemned to emasculation or corruption, if he lacked the grim impulse of ambition to spur him on. It is not, to be sure, that the passion for rank and honors, which is only careerism, possess him, but it is beyond doubt...
...brilliant, agile Protestant and a clear, methodical Catholic packed an audience of 1,500 into Rindge Tech auditorium last night as they discussed the problem "Christianity and Communism: Are They Compatible?" in the year's fourth Law Forum...
None was awaited with more interest than the new overture by brilliant young Aram Khachaturian, 43, which will have its premiere in Leningrad during the celebrations. He had scored it for 110 pieces, including a pipe organ and 18 trumpets. Said he: "It has no literary program-it is pure music." Then he hastily added: "But it has ideas . . . the legitimate feeling of pride and rejoicing for our nation's victory over the German invaders and the social significance of the 30th anniversary of the revolution...