Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ostrers then went John Maxwell, chairman & managing director of the No. 2 British cinema company, Associated Brit ish Picture Corp., Ltd. Thickly set, be spectacled, abrupt, Cineman Maxwell has been plodding along in the wake of the volatile Ostrers for years, making less brilliant cinemas but more impressive balance sheets...
Thus, in the autumn of 1935, wrote Manhattan Banker James P. Warburg in Hell Bent for Election. Last week, in the most dramatic reversal of the campaign, this early, vehement and brilliant member of the "anybody but Roosevelt" school announced his intention to vote for Franklin Roosevelt's reelection...
...Finally Columbia's Manhattan office made up its independent mind, cut off the program for good from 22 stations in the East and South. The gathering in the Tropical Room and listeners to the other 44 Columbia stations heard the whole half-hour dialog between Michigan's brilliant, bitter Senator and the spooky canned voice of the U. S. President...
President Conant last Spring appointed a committee to study and make a report on the tutorial system. The general feeling prevalent at that time was that the system should be curtailed to a certain extent and that men not out for honors, who were not particularly brilliant students, should be deprived of the benefits of the tutorial system. That is an "A" and "B" plan was suggested, whereby good students would be given full tutorial instruction and less brilliant men would be put under plan "B" and get no intensive work with their tutors. Such an arrangement has been...
...artist-philosopher set out to contrast, the unity of the middle ages with the individualism of the present day. Neither was written for general consumption but rather as an intellectual exercise for the author's peculiar benefit. They are thus full of ripe personal wisdom and illumined by the brilliant yet wary genius of the man Adams...