Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many scholarships as Harvard, but can afford to give only about 60 percent as much to each applicant. Time and again, one of the other Ivy Colleges steals away a prospective top student by offering him considerably more than Brown could. In a typical case Wriston contacted a particularly brilliant student whom he wanted to get into Brown's freshman class this year. He offered the high school senior $700. But the student went to Harvard under the blessing of a $1500 grant. Still, Brown, like Harvard, this year has one of the best freshman classes it has every attracted...
...this light the movie's great advantage is that its protagonist, Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt, is a true tragic hero, a man destroyed by the thing he loves. Prewitt loves the Army; the Army reciprocates by stepping on Prewitt, humiliating him, and finally killing him. Like a brilliant freshman who flunks out by ignoring exams as an imposition on his freedom, Prewitt is a born soldier who masters and loves all the mechanical; aspects of the Army, but who can not accept its small demands on his self-respect...
...capable physician, the first in the West to discover that the blood circulates in the lungs. He was an astrologer of some repute, the author of several handy works on divination. He was a scholar in Hebrew and Greek, and, even by his enemies' testimony, a brilliant theologian...
Football, always a great sight of the U.S. autumn scene, was showing the fans some dazzling spectacles. Reason: brilliant October weather and fresh winds blowing from the rule book. The return to the one-platoon system swept the boring scramble of unlimited substitutions from the fields: games were easier to follow and shorter, players more versatile. Fans flocked to the stadiums to hear the bands and cheer the helmeted heroes, crowded even breather games in hopes of an upset. Two of the most bruising battles so far saw Big Ten Champion Wisconsin losing to U.C.L.A., 13-0, at Los Angeles...
...baby flashbulbs, easily portable strobe lights, and stereoscopic cameras. He pores over catalogues as a gourmet surveys a menu. How can he resist such dishes as the Globetrotter Gadget Bag ("Leather-covered sponge rubber bumper for carrying against body," $42.50) ; Steineck A-B-C Camera ("Straps to the wrist . . . brilliant finder for sighting at waist level," $150); Flexing Powelites ("Portable Sunshine . . . adjust your lights to any desired position...