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Word: brilliantly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scientific laboratory. A rare marriage of scientific talent and hard-headed business know-how, General Dynamics employs one scientist for every five workers, has a roster of consultants that includes such greats as Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb, and Dr. Theodore von Karman, Caltech's brilliant mathematician and aerodynamicist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Builder of the Atlas | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

...probably easier to select the brilliant scientist on an undergraduate level than it is to choose the highly talented historian. Certainly no department should award summas on a quota basis. On the other hand, the criteria should be harmonized so that the qualified student, regardless of field of concentration, has a fair chance to be graduated summa cum laude...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summa | 1/14/1958 | See Source »

Einar Gerhardsen urged new attempts at "realistic discussions" between East and West. Even West Germany's President Theodor Heuss chimed in to plead for a return to "secret diplomacy" along the lines recently advocated by "the cautious and brilliant George Kennan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Search for a Path | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...merely demonstrated the half-truth of a later dictum that "all authors are musical-boxes which play a limited number of tunes." And yet. at the time of his death he was, like Dickens with Edwin Drood and Stevenson with Weir of Hermiston, midway through what remained a brilliant fragment-Denis Duval, Dickens considered it "the best of all his works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great Swell | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

Perhaps more importantly for this year's vintage crop of marksmen, the game witnessed the return to form of pint-sized guard George Harrington. A disappointment in earlier season play, Harrington, a junior, finally achieved a semblance of last year's brilliant performances as he scored consistently on set shots and driving lay-ups and tallied 19 points to lead the Crimson scoring...

Author: By Mark L. Krupnick, | Title: Basketball Team Downs Columbia, Bows to Cornell | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

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