Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More mysterious has been the abrupt decline of the Giants, who did exactly the same thing last year. Betting Commissioner Jack Doyle supplied a shrewd diagnosis: the Giants with brilliant pitchers, good fielding but no remarkable batting power, rarely win or lose by a large margin and four months of close games wear them out before the season is over. The Cubs, almost ignored in pre-season pennant predictions, were last week still scorned by the Cardinals and the Giants. Meanwhile a Cub pitcher named Bill Lee took first place in the League pitching averages with 15 victories, 5 defeats...
Financial difficulties are especially troublesome to the Freshman of limited means at Harvard unless he is sufficiently brilliant to obtain some form of University aid. Statistics show that new men should not expect to earn more than $300 by part time work during the school year or the chance of academic success is drastically endangered...
Ruthless in defense of the franc, M. Tannery breathed the word which recently barred from France smart Lieut. Colonel Francis Norris, a suave British bear raider. Last week a nod from Governor Tannery expelled another British bear, 27-year-old Serge Rubenstein, brilliant Cambridge economist and founder of Paris' Franco-Asiatic Bank. A third young man who sold too many francs short to suit Gold Cock Tannery was Bertrand Coles Neidecker, fugitive U. S. founder of Paris' closed Travelers Bank (TIME...
...some time the bull-necked War Minister has been weeding out of Japan's military elite officers hostile to his clique. Some of the roughest weeding, the most heartbreaking demotions and transfers of brilliant, high-strung fighters to humdrum posts, was done by General Nagata, assassinated last week to the high-strung satisfaction of an Army crowd younger than groveling old Hayashi...
...Christ"; Bed Reader. When Howard Hughes sold Jean Harlow to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it helped to ripen her friendship with Paul Bern, one of MGM's ablest associate producers. Handsome, slender, melancholy, brilliant and distinguished by his profound sympathy for other people's troubles, Paul Bern was called by his friends "a motion picture Christ." The phrase had no wide currency until Labor Day, 1932-the day, two months after his marriage to Jean Harlow, that Paul Bern was found naked in his bathroom, face down and dead, with a bullet in his brain. His friends might have...