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Word: brilliants (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Toronto swept the ice with its brilliant forward line and stalwart defense and it was due largely to the brilliant playing of S. M. Batchelder '31 that the Crimson was able to chalk up any score against the whirling Canadian combination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD SEXTET FACES TORONTO AGAIN TONIGHT | 1/3/1929 | See Source »

...glorious days of brilliant sunshine during the Hillary Term at Lent gladden the winter-worn spirits of Oxford freshmen, and for the first time the promise of beauty seems near to realization. For it is in Trinity Term that Oxford blooms with unbelievable richness. She is most easily appreciated then set in the rich green of meadows and fields by two beautiful rivers, now covered with punts and canoes; old trees line the roads and walks, the air is sweet and clear and fresh, and the Colleges sparkle in the sunshine. It is now that one knows the High...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Rhodes Scholar Writes Contemporary Oxford Articles | 1/3/1929 | See Source »

...line when the opening whistle blows, by virtue of his spectacular playing on Monday night, Harvard is expected to start the above combination. The Crimson outfit is eager to avenge the defeat earlier in the week but it will have to play superlative hockey in order to stop the brilliant attack of the Canadian forward line. In Monday night's game the Toronto defense proved to be a formidable bulwark against the Crimson offense despite the versatile showing of most of the forward linemen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD SEXTET FACES TORONTO AGAIN TONIGHT | 1/3/1929 | See Source »

...Taylor is the brilliant and scholarship-loving lawyer who, after triumphing in the textile and other businesses; became last January one of the triumvirate chosen to succeed the late Judge Gary as rulers of U. S. Steel (see p. 26). The other two: John Pierpont Morgan, James Augustine Farrell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Diplomacy | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...more seriously than the host of whippersnappers who have travestied his methods in the six years since Queen Victoria was published. Three years' solid work expended on that book resulted in what the author called "suffering from mental prostration"-horrible to consider what effect the present more brilliant volume will have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Hen, Great Snake | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

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