Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hill '30 and E. G. Chandler, 21, former intercollegiate tennis champion and no. 5 in the national ranking of 1926. The former University of California star experienced little trouble in vanquishing Hill, outplaying him in every department of the game. The ranking player showed flashes of the brilliant form which has assured him a place on the Davis Cup squads of the past several years. Early this spring, Chandler participated in the Davis Cup tryouts held in Georgia, under the leadership of W. T. Tilden H; he returned from the midst of the tournament when his studies called him back...
...according to Senator Pat Harrison of that State, to John Sharp Williams, onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator, who now dozes in gardenia-scented retirement on his plantation near Yazoo City, Miss. To fill the Williams shoes, Mississippi sent to Washington Hubert Durett Stephens, a man who was considered brilliant as a youth because he started practicing law at the tender age of 20, but who has yet to distinguish himself either as a shoe-filler or as a Senator...
...course of Icarus, they went through the air to Athens, the place he never reached. The little hills and the brilliant city grew into the darkness under them. They landed at six in the evening and had a bitter wine with their dinner. They made a journey which many a splendid army has made in two months; by the middle of the spring afternoon they were in Marseilles...
...situation that might have been borrowed from a sporting story in a boys' magazine, Miller proved himself the Boy Who Made Good. In his first game, the third of the series, he made many brilliant saves; in the next game he kept the Maroon team without a score. The Rangers, who had won by a single goal, carried Miller off the ice on their heads as, in Manhattan, the baseball fans had carried Cohen...
...rival by writing an excellent competitive examination paper may feel that he is contributing as directly to the college's glory as the halfback who scores a winning touchdown in the big game of the season. If the experiment receives the publicity it seems destined to attract, the brilliant student also can no longer complain that his efforts are unrewarded by outside attention...