Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this, and well might citizens of all creeds re-echo praise of a man whose knowledge of the law and understanding of the "rights of man" is unsurpassed. In 1916 President Wilson appointed him to the Supreme Court in the face of biting criticism. People said: "Yes, he is brilliant, but he is biased. We do not want prejudiced labor advocates in the Supreme Court...
When the German offensive at the Marne concentrated unexpectedly upon Le Petit Morin, the heights which General Foch had been assigned to defend with a pitiably small force, his brilliant "intuitive" maneuver of the 42nd Division from his left to his centre forced the enemy back and proved a paramount element in the French victory. Marshal Joseph Jacques Joffre, who had long realized the special capabilities of Ferdinand Foch, took this opportunity to send him as "Deputy Commander-in-Chief" to put himself in the closest touch with the British and Belgian commanders. His success in conciliating all with whom...
Though Ferdinand Foch was all but unknown in the U. S. prior to the World War, he enlisted as a private in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, and later, after attending the War College, became a professor there (1894) renowned for the soundness of his matter and the brilliant originality of his presentation. He developed a veritable "school" of French officers who gave unusual attention to that evanescent factor which was to prove so vital when the War came: morale...
...wearers of former years who will meet Coach Bigelow on the opening day of practice. Besides these veterans, last year's undefeated Freshman team will supply its quota of stars, of whom H. G. Crosby, '29, E. T. Putnam '29, and John Tudor '29 are the most brilliant...
From Yale, in 1897, a brilliant youth of 20 was graduated. Of prosperous and socially impeccable Manhattan parentage, he did not forsake his youthful religious enthusiasm, but committed himself at once to the ministry. He was urbane, witty, talkative, diplomatic -even then having something of the Giorgione monk in his deep eyes and strange eyebrows. A gypsy, for less than a quarter, might easily have predicted for him an easy path to a Manhattan bishopric. But the gypsy could not have guessed how passionately Presbyterian he is -this modern liberal; and the radical honesty of the man would sooner lead...