Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poujade story [March 19]. It is a brilliant...
...more than 8,000,000), bustling and gaudily expensive a city (a first-rate geisha party runs up to $60 per person) as any on earth. Yet a few miles outside, Japan goes back centuries to a bygone world of tiny, meticulously tilled farms, tranquil lotus ponds and brilliantly colored shrines and temples. The finest temples are at Kyoto, Nara, where the 1,349-year-old Horyuji Temple is said to be the world's oldest wooden building, and at Nikko, where the brilliant Toshogu Shrine is set in a fairyland of rugged mountains, waterfalls and virgin forests. Tourists...
...bubble of gas expanding at 60 miles per second on the eastern edge of the sun opened the film. It grew steadily more brilliant for five to ten minutes. Suddenly part of the top broke off and sped upward at 700 miles per second or 2 1/2 million miles an hour...
...Things to All Men. At 33 he took his first lessons in Latin with a group of schoolboys, then moved on to Paris, center of European scholarship, to attend the College Saint-Barbe. There he gathered about him six of the most brilliant men, one of them Francis Xavier. From that small band grew Loyola's Society of Jesus, officially constituted six years later-in 1540-by Pope Paul III. Ignatius, ordained a priest only three years before the papal recognition, at last became a "general," for the Society of Jesus was set up like a military body. with...
Another standout for the Crimson was Dazzler F. Davis III, whose dazzling play won him a smooth victory in the No. 2 spot. The doubles team of Lucky Ludington and Davis combined for a display at brilliant court play as these two game naturals won their matches in straight sets...