Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sportsman. Big, powerful, restless, Doyle is first of all a man of action. He is proficient at most games. Brilliant cricketer, masterly billiard player, fisherman, footballer, horseman, skier, first-rate boxer (he was asked to referee the Johnson-Jeffries fight), golfer - he has at least dabbled in everything...
...collaborated in writing a legal textbook on taxation of foreign income. He is partner in Thomas Nelson & Sons, one of the largest publishing houses in the world. Nor has he escaped politics; he once stood for his county as Unionist candidate for Parliament. His War career was brilliant, progressing from newspaper correspondent, intelligence officer in active battle to Director of Information under the Prime Minister (Lloyd George) and the War Cabinet...
Such a divergence of opinion can be explained by the fact that Captain Greenough's team at times was brilliant to an extreme and at others wallowed in the mire of mediocrity. Each opinion could be well backed by Saturday's performance...
...records of the second half tell a very different story. It was during the third and fourth quarters that Harvard displayed a brand of football that warrants an optimistic outlook. A brilliant runback of the opening kick-off by Hammond was the forerunner of the policy the Crimson backs were to adopt the remainder of the game...
...Larrivee of Holy Cross and B. R. Cutcheon '25 finished first and second in a brilliant cross-country race yesterday when the University harriers defeated the Holy Cross team 23-33. Larrivee's time was 27 minutes and 38 seconds, while Cutcheon finished a pace behind him. The weather was ideal for long-distance running...