Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bombers, their red-disc insignia plain to their victims below, maneuvered into position. In the twilight, soon made more brilliant by a full moon, they divided, one formation concentrating over Dujugai, another heading for the city's congested southern district, another concentrating on the hilltops where consulates are located...
...never been much of a power inside the Soviet Union. He was not even a member of the Political Bureau and had been a member of the Communist Party's Central Committee for only five years. He probably did not even formulate Soviet Foreign policy; he was a brilliant diplomatic technician. But in the world's eyes he was identified with that era of Soviet policy when the U. S. S. R. backed up strongly every move to curb the aggressors, pushed forward the principles of collective security, allied itself with democracies, put its face squarely against dictatorships...
...program. With them went bureaucrats, ruling cliques, political leaders, military castes, police functionaries, armies of officeholders, diplomats, the props and supports of the ruling dynasties. Replacing them came, along with the new States, new political organizations employing new methods to realize new social theories. In Russia a brilliant group of social theorists under Lenin struggled with rival theoricians, Tsarist generals, Allied intervention, for control of the former Russian Empire, but everywhere social experimentation-good or bad, radical or reactionary-was in the air. It was administered by politicians of a new type-professors like Masaryk, artists like Paderewski, literary figures...
Although the Crusaders are potent medicine and boast and a brilliant relay team, while the Huskies are a better-than-average outfit, today the cards seem stacked for a well-rounded Crimson squad that ended up the winter season in a blaze of glory when it upset Cornell to win the Quad meet...
...Rockefeller General Education Board, and would soon quit the Rockefeller Foundation. Last week, to the surprise of scientists all over the U. S., the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research enforced retirement rules on its working scientists for the first time, suddenly announced the withdrawal of five of its most brilliant members. Although the five scientists will hand over their administrative duties to younger colleagues, they will all receive pensions, and most of them will continue their important research work in Foundation laboratories. The retirees, five of the keenest scientific brains on earth...