Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brilliant triple victory at the Indoor Athletic Building last Saturday afternoon, the Crimson grapplers played a prominent part, the Varsity beating Tufts 23-11 and the Freshman taking the Tufts Yearlings...
Turning in one of the most brilliant individual performances of his career, Captain Milton Green led the Crimson forces to a smashing win in the first Quadrangular Indoor Meet Saturday night in the Garden...
...Council on Medical Education & Hospitals, installed the late Dr. Nathan Porter Colwell as secretary. That year Dr. Colwell went to the Carnegie Foundation, asked that a lay survey of the nation's medical schools be made and its findings published. The Carnegie Foundation chose for the job a brilliant young educator named Abraham Flexner, who had ceased teaching in Louisville high schools to earn a Harvard M. A. With Dr. Colwell, Abraham Flexner visited U. S. medical schools, U. S. clinics, studied the by-laws of the state medical boards which licensed new practitioners. His findings he presented incisively...
Until William Saroyan burst from his cell last year with a whole series of yells, Dikran Kouyoumdjian (Michael Arlen) was the only Armenian writer U. S. readers were aware of. Apart from their ancestry the two have little in common. Michael Arlen, called brilliantine if not brilliant, has taken all Mayfair for his province. William Saroyan is astounded, delighted, agonized by the mystery of his own breathing. His first collection of outbursts was called The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (TIME, Oct. 22, 1934). His second is even more appropriately titled Inhale & Exhale...
...memorandum from the Chief-of-staff, General Craig, to the Secretary of War, is clear and succinct in its condemnation of Hagood for having overstepped his duties as an army officer and public servant. Craig commends his subordinate's professional efficiency and brilliant intellect, but calls his remarks before the House Appropriations subcommittee flippant and in direct breach of accepted army policy: which is that no political utterances should be made by an army officer. Hagood's statements, designedly or otherwise, brought criticism and ridicule upon the army and his superiors, including the Commander-in-Chief, and are so much...