Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unfortunate that the committee might be encouraged to overlook the non-academic considerations of admissions because of dissatisfactions with the relatively feeble record of the class of '61. This reversal is an isolated incident and the brilliant records of many preceding classes selected under the same admissions policy excludes the possibility of any direct cause and effect relationship...
Occasionally the Crimson's shotmaking was brilliant, as in the second Yale game (41 per cent). But more often it was just plain lousy, largely because no more than one-fourth of the varsity's attempts came from inside the foul circle. The team average on the year from the floor was a paltry 33.5 per cent, compared to the opponents' 38.3 per cent, a very significant difference...
Since his brilliant, luminous canvases were even then bringing up to $10,000 each, an estate of several million dollars was involved. Bonnard's friends were gloomy; in their opinion there was no escape from the basic French law of "community of goods," and in time of war, with half France occupied by the Nazis, Vichy government officials would certainly sell his goods to pay Marthe's inheritance taxes. If only she had left a will...
Aparajito (Indian). The brilliant second part (the first was Father Panchali) of a trilogy, made by Director Satyajit Ray, telling the story of India's social revolution in terms of one family's sorrows and beatitudes...
...five minute stretch midway through the second half of last night's contest at the I.A.B., favored Yale outscored the varsity, 13 to 1, thus turning an extremely close game into an 82-71 Eli triumph. George Harrington, closing out his brilliant career, led both teams with 27 points, outscoring Yale's ace, Larry Downs, by three...