Word: brilliantly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Winston Churchill, skilled fashioner of what he once called that "noble thing," the English sentence, last week went literature's biggest crown, the Nobel Prize for literature. Not only his 27 books were taken into account, said the Swedish Academy, but also the "brilliant oratory in which he stood forward as the defender of eternal human values...
Dartmouth is average on defense except for a brilliant goalie, senior Don Swanson. Dartmouth coach Tom Dent calls him "a dream player, someone who comes along once in a hundred years." Swanson came out late, missing the first two games...
...number and the caliber of distinguished American scholars who travel to Salzburg to serve there as members of the Seminar's faculty, without remuneration. The Seminar undertakes with remarkable, if not unqualified, success to explain America to Europe. This is done at Salzburg by many of our most brilliant and articulate scholars speaking to those who do now or in the near future will, influence the public opinion of Europe...
...college administrations feel that they are currently bidding for brilliant students just as they might bid for good halfbacks. In an attempt to gain eventual prestige they are trying to lure in students who they feel will eventually make...
Americans, who love motion, have taken sculpture off its pedestal and put it, swinging and swaying, into the air. Ever since Connecticut's brilliant Alexander Calder first exhibited mobiles* in 1932, the oddly shaped, delicately balanced contraptions of wood, metal or plastic have been suspended in the more modern-minded museums. Until recently, hardly anyone thought of these dangling doodles as suitable for the living room. But this year, with artists designing mobiles for commercial production, they seem to be growing into a national fad. A whole new minor industry is turning out thousands every day, from...