Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...square peg confronted by polished, rounded holes, learned that the Bureau of Ships had decided to send a captain and four junior officers to Oak Ridge to study nuclear energy. He got the job. (No other qualified captain applied.) Nuclear physics in those days was something to scare even brilliant officers...
...pattern did not include the most revolutionary novelty; nuclear propulsion. It was still untried; indeed, it seemed far in the future, and the peacetime promotion system did not favor the quick rise of brilliant men with vision enough to prepare for the battles of the distant future...
...freshman hockey team is not "in for any brilliant season," according to its new coach, young Johnny White...
LIFE: Daniel Longwell, 54, had been informally associated with TIME from its earliest years. In 1934, he left Doubleday, Page & Co. after a brilliant career there, in order to develop plans for the first real picture magazine in the U.S. He played a key part in the conception of LIFE, "of which he was a senior editor from Volume 1, No. 1 (1936). With imagination and good taste, he helped LIFE attain the distinctive pictorial reflection of American culture and custom, fact and fun, which became a major part of LIFE'S journalistic heritage. He served as LIFE...
Among the first to strut by is the brilliant, bemonocled chief who led the army through the early post-World War I years. Steel blue of eye, trap-tight of lip, Hans von Seeckt was called "the Sphinx." The Sphinx's two rules for the Reichswehr as a political power: it must be 1) "above party," and 2) "a state within a state." In the early '20s, Seeckt kept the telephone pact with the Socialists, at the same time busied himself with building up the cadres of a new German army and a new armament industry-both...