Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much less frightening creed than oldsters used to think it. Even conservative quidnuncs, if they can bring themselves to read Author Brailsford's 329 big pages, will see that his doctrine is less fatal, more optimistic, than the present faiths of Rome. Berlin and Moscow. A sometimes brilliant and always lucid writer, Author Brailsford has given a masterful summation of the Socialist worldview...
...Moines, Iowa was installed Most Rev. Gerald Thomas Bergan as Roman Catholic bishop succeeding the late Most Rev. Thomas Drumm. Born in Peoria 42 years ago, Bishop Bergan has been priest, chancellor, vicar general in that diocese. An able athlete in college (St. Viator, Bourbonnais, Ill.), he was a brilliant student at North American College in Rome, where he was ordained...
...home stretch of 1934's Open Kudos Championship last week, a professional breasted the tape a clean winner. He was Harvard's lean, long-legged, new President James Bryant Conant, recipient this season of seven honorary degrees. Two strides behind was Amateur Hull, with five degrees. A brilliant finishing sprint put Tyler Dennett, president-elect of Williams, in a triple tie for third place with Secretary of the Interior Harold LeClair Ickes and Princeton's new President Harold Wrillis Dodds, each with four degrees...
...country doctor while his old classmate George Roiter was becoming one of the biggest men in Oslo, head of the university, famed throughout Europe as a humane expert on international law. Since schooldays they had been friends and rivals. Hallem was self-centered, disagreeable, fiercely envious; Roiter brilliant, unselfish, easily preeminent. Twice Roiter had saved Hallem's life-once when he was publicly denounced for plagiarizing and had gone home to hang himself; again when Hallem had made a girl pregnant and she had died in an attempt at abortion. In their middle-age both had good wives, children...
...projects who enjoy undreamed of prosperity, living in cabins, enjoying double food rations or even riding in automobiles and there are the ironically named "settler specialists" whose homes and property have been taken from them and who "specialize" in digging holes to live in. Despite the idealism which decrees brilliant funerals for workers killed by their own stupidity we get a hint that the changes have not yet penetrated for "a huge poster over the piggery, but such fifth inside that been the pigs have died." Certain classes pursue the communist ideal with a fansticism and introspection almost identical...