Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last poems that a very sensitive and intelligent lady wrote, most of them while she sat in her garden or study between arduous hours compiling a ponderous life of Poet John Keats (TIME, Mar. 2). As she was alone most of the time, her poems usually drifted like brilliant toy balloons, or crackled like showering sparks, out of her pure ego. Three hours she spent once, imagining, chaffing, quizzing, loving three "sister poets"-Sappho, "Ba" Browning, Emily Dickinson. When the purple grackles spent a day of their southerning in her evergreens, she took them personally, sadly. She wrote of lilacs...
...entered the University of Illinois, became the brightest star of a brilliant freshman backfield. After his first varsity year he was chosen for Walter Camp's All-American. His combined speed, power, and cleverness in open field work, coaches declared, had not been paralleled in the last decade. Last year, in the first twelve minutes of a game against Michigan, he made four runs of from 45 to 90 yards each. At the kickoff he raced from his goal-line to score a touchdown, a feat which has been accomplished only eleven times in history. During the Michigan game...
...match for a Yale team seemingly even more powerful than the Blue elevens of the last two years. Yale put on a terrific attack which netted them 19 first downs and eight touchdowns, five of the latter coming in the first half. With an apparently inexhaustible supply of brilliant backs, the Elis tore through the visitors' line almost at will. Bunnell, Kline, Cutler, and Wienecke starred in the Yale offense. The New Haven line was impregnable, and Middlebury's only gains were made by forward passes. It will be interesting to see if the Harvard backs can gain as much...
...number of teachers who are continually deserting the ranks for the substantial returns of business may not be alarming, yet the annually increasing numbers of brilliant men who are drawn at the outset of their careers into the highly paid fields is providing incalculably disastrous both for American universities and for the American people. The effect is far reaching and even the standards of national thought, culture, and life itself are suffering a profound erosion. Two and a half billions of dollars in the last decade have been donated the the higher institutes of learning and imposing plants and Gothic...
Princeton, meeting Amherst in its opening contest, also appears strong behind the line. Caulkens, former St. Mark's star, will pilot the Orange and Black eleven, with Gilligan and the brilliant Stagle at the halfback positions, Dignan, like the halfbacks, a veteran, will do the line plunging from fullback. Coach Roper also has a complete reserve backfield on hand, composed of Bridges, Chandler, Ewing, and Prendergast. Bridges was star line bucker on the freshman team last fall and Ewing is Princeton's sharpshooting drop-kicker...