Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Each of the four touchdowns was the result of a brilliant dash by one of the fleet Crimson backs. The last score was actually made on a short line buck but a 25-yard run by T. W. Gilligan '31 had placed the ball in a threatening position. Captain A. E. French '29, David Guarnaccia '29, and A. W. Huguley '31 accounted for the other touchdowns almost single-handed...
...best ball carriers in the school boy ranks as the leader of a strong Worcester eleven. He captained his first year team and stood out as one of the bright lights in a rather dull season. In his Sophomore year he gained prominence and a high rating by a brilliant 47-yard dash through the entire Dartmouth team in the last minute of play to snatch what seemed certain victory from the grasp of the invaders. Since that time French has been a consistent performer in all the games he has taken part in. His chief weakness lies...
...embarrassing for Mr. Steuer because he already enjoys a fame bordering on notoriety. He is a lawyer. Not brilliant mentally, he excels at courtroom melodramatics of a type which many a jury has found seductive. "The Belasco of the Bar," he has been called, by persons not trying to compliment Producer David Belasco...
...Paulo, Brazil, last week, a one-ring circus was held. At the end of circus, as a final and most brilliant attraction, a wrestling match was arranged between a gigantic nameless Bahian Negro and a small, engaging Jap, name unknown. After a few minutes wrestling, the black Bahian had the Jap on his back; but the Jap rolled over, snickering, and at the end of the wrestling he was sitting like a prime minister upon the dark and heaving stomach of his adversary...
Chemistry's Value. Samuel Wilson Parr, 71, preceptor of the group of brilliant chemists and physicists at the University of Illinois, and president of the chemistry society, opened the meeting with the survey usual at such affairs: "Output of chemical products in this country have advanced in 50 years from an insignificant sum to more than $2,000,000,000 annually at present. . . . This is a chemical age, and we live, move and have our physical being as a result of chemical processes. Whether we travel on foot in chrome-tanned shoes and rayon stockings or roll to work...