Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reserve. Wealthy South Side Jews, the Leopold, Loeb and Franks families were friends and neighbors. When the boy's body was found, Loeb, 18, and the University of Michigan's youngest graduate, called at the Franks home to offer condolences, helped police search for clues. Leopold, a brilliant law student at the University of Chicago and at 18 an ornithologist of repute, continued with his bird-study classes. Ten days after the murder the case suddenly broke when a pair of glasses found at the scene of the crime were identified as Leopold's, and Loeb...
...Chapel Hill, got a warrant, staged a night raid on the apartment of tall, slight Douglas Cartland, graduate in the class of 1934, Phi Beta Kappa, potent ping pong player. Caught with evidence of his work, Cartland typed out a confession, reeled off a list of his clients. Brilliant, with a phenomenal memory, Cartland had supported himself and widowed mother through his cheating service. With the aid of pass keys and confederates he had pirated many an examination from professors' rooms, sold questions and answers at fixed prices. Failing this, he stationed himself in a toilet near the examination...
...bitterest clash of the day Warren Williams upset A. Winslow (U.B.C.) when he came from behind by brilliant rallying to win 8-15, 11-15, 18-16, 18-16, 15-12. Francis R. Appleton made sure of the Yardling's victory when he defeated W. Taber by the scores...
Also beginning this week, Mr. Kraska announces a magnificent innovation in theatre fare. Once every day, including Sunday. at 12.30 o'clock, preceding the first show, concerts will be presented in their entirety, recorded by artists of distinction. This first program is dedicated to Dr. Serge Koussevitzky, whose brilliant rendering of the Sibelius Symphony No. 2 in D Major opens the series...
...scientists plan to obtain spectrograms of the outer layers of the sun's atmosphere and of the brilliant corona over a wide range of wave lengths. They will study especially the infra-red region of the spectrum, where present knowledge is only fragmentary...