Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...combination of shattering line play, well timed interference, and brilliant running produced the three Crimson scores. The first came in the in Day period when Captain French cultivated a 53-yard march with a twisting turning dash of 14 yards off left Jackie. The next score came in the second quarter on a 12 yard run by second quarter on a 12 yard run by Guarnaccia coming at the end of a 38 yard drive. And the final Harvard score was even more than these an indication of the power and drive which the whole eleven possessed throughout the contest...
Young Senator LaFollette said nothing committal. It was still possible for Nominee Curtis, who went stumping through Wisconsin last week, to endorse the young man's candidacy for re-election to the Senate. "That brilliant young man," Nominee Curtis called him, in what seemed an importunate plea to keep the Progressives of the Northwest in line for the Hoover-Curtis ticket...
...that brilliant young man" was believed to be holding his fire. He had more to gain, for his own cause of getting Progressives elected to Congress throughout the Northwest, by waiting for a more dramatic moment to declare himself. He had much to lose from his reputation for square-speaking if he did not ultimately declare himself. Because, besides the utterances of the LaFollette organs, there were other elements and developments...
Presumably Young Chiang's utter change of principle resulted from his having been drawn into the orbit of Dr. Sun Yatsen, great and pure apostle of the Chinese Democracy that is yet to be. After winning Dr. Sun's confidence by brilliant service in the field, Chiang became his private secretary and served devotedly through all the vicissitudes of the South China Republic, founded by Dr. Sun at Canton. When the Great Leader died in 1925, Disciple Chiang Kai-shek had just completed an arrangement with the Russian Soviet Government whereby millions of rubles were furnished to equip the Nationalist...
Eighteenth Century. Returned to England in skirts, Orlando attended Queen Anne's brilliant balls; flirted with Mr. Pope, sipped tea with Addison and Steele, reflecting that future generations, little guessing her boredom, would envy her the intimacy...