Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thanks for the Harvard-Pusey story [TIME, March 1]. Brilliant in treatment, the content goes to the heart of the values in a free university and a free nation. Teachers in all colleges owe Harvard deepest gratitude...
...Missouri Baptist preacher, sturdy, bulb-nosed Ernest Wilkins became a brilliant mathematician and a Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Illinois, wrote a thesis on algebraic numbers theory before he graduated in 1918. After serving overseas in World War I, he worked his way through the University of Chicago's law school, became a prosperous lawyer, was president of the Cook County Bar Association in 1941-42. One of the leading U.S. laymen in the Methodist Church, Republican Wilkins has been serving as vice chairman of the presidential committee seeking to eliminate racial discrimination in plants with Government...
...College of Wooster. Ohio, and a doctorate from Ohio State. He also had high recommendations from the Christie Engineering Co. of Philadelphia. Most important of all, Yates certainly seemed to know his physics. To New Hampshire's President Robert F. Chandler Jr., he was nothing short of "brilliant...
...early. The son of a Philadelphia laborer, he had begun "taking math books out of the library when the other kids took out fairy tales." At ten he was reading books on Einstein's theory of relativity, later became interested in psychology because "I recognized myself as a brilliant child." In his teens Hewitt claims to have mastered engineering, once wrote a paper for a state engineering society that was "so complicated that no more than three men in the room understood it." It did not really bother him that his father had showed so little interest in sending...
...behind the stars are the three Good Fairies. As the fairies' section boss, Una, Jo Maheu is occasionally wooden and unconvincing. But in smaller roles Liz Johnson (who assembled the brilliant costumes) and Sue Campbell are appealing sprites...