Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Burns was appointed chief of the Secret Service on August 23, 1921. Before that time he served as president of the William J. Burns Detective Agency, and has had 22 years in the Secret Service, making a brilliant record, and conducting many of the most important discoveries of counterfeiters and forgers of recent years...
...University yearlings Captain Samborski and Morrison at right and left guard respectively, have played the most consistent game throughout the season while Merriam has displayed brilliant work in some games. Samborski especially has added to the team's effectiveness, not only by the stubbornness of his defensive playing, but by his ability to score points as well. For Yale, Captain Bench at right guard and Luman at center have been the outstanding players...
Playing with a dash and vigor seldom seen even in championship matches, D. McK. Key '22 and W. P. Dixon '25 gave an exceptionally brilliant exhibition of racquet work in their fierce struggle for the title in the finals of the University Squash tournament Saturday afternoon. The match was tense throughout and it was the super-playing of Key rather than any slump on the part of his opponent that gave victory to the former...
Hodder proved himself the Freshman's strongest man, combining his usual steady defensive work with some of the brilliant dashes down the rink that made him the outstanding figure in the Rambler contest last Thursday. Team-work was a forte of neither sextet, the ragged and eccentric playing clearly showing the post-season character of the struggle...
...concert closed with a brilliant performance of the Overture to Wagner's "Flying Dutchman...