Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Captain Smith, brilliant right forward, the University basketball team ran rough shod over the Brown quintet last night to win by a 36 to 24 score in the last game of the season to be played in the Hemenway Gymnasium. The Crimson leader counted immediately after the opening whistle with a long toss and continued to pile up half of the University tallies...
...Hartvigsen. He is homely and humble, this student, and loves Rosa inevitably. Is she not the only beautiful thing in that village of drying fish and stuffy sitting rooms? But the centre of gravity is, as always, Trader Mack. The return of his tall, erotic daughter from Denmark, the brilliant suicide of Rosa's first husband, the burial of his great featherbed bath-tub? none of these shakes the hold of Mack, the strong silent man, over the fumblers about him. Honest British...
...yard run, came Haggerty's record-breaking performance in the 1000-yard run. His well planned victory in the mile run, Captain Tibbett's beautiful two-mile win, and Watter's desperate drive into second place in the 1000-yard run were no less remarkable. Miller was also in brilliant form as he sprinted away from the field in the 40-yard dash...
...middle of the last session. In a last minute drive the losers found the Harvard cage twice to finish the evening's scoring. Captain Cady, of the Yale sextet, was carried from the ice just before the final whistle with a badly injured leg, after playing a brilliant game...
...that number. It is very difficult to be exact. Ten years ago he took in hand a list of 100 words that should be recognized by this hypothetical person, and administered it to his students year after year. The students had to use each word in a sentence, and brilliant examples would come in, like this: p>"The great auk is now extinct...