Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outraged, betrayed, dejectedly off to bed last night, the first Friday in years without having read TIME. Brooding thoughts while seeking escape in sleep: Whistler's Mother with eyebrows plucked, lips rouged and fingernails enameled a brilliant scarlet. The Blue Danube in swing. Saint-Gaudens' Lincoln with face lifted, wrinkles erased and character lines obliterated. The legs of a fine old Chippendale piece knocked off and replaced with chrome pipe. The interior of Mount Vernon done over in 1938 night-club modern. The mellow patina of a fine old bronze reliquary burnished away...
Kirkland strengthened an early season bid for its third successive House football championship yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field by decisively downing Leverett 13-0 in a struggle featured by brilliant running and blocking. In the other game, Dunster added to the list of upsets by staving off a fourth period Eliot air attack to edge the Elephants...
...Mozart, K. No. 287. The piece was composed and presented in 1777, during Mozart's twenty-first year while he was in Munich on the first stages of his ninth concert tour of Europe. Mozart played the first violin in the performance, and prepared for himself a very brilliant part...
Borodin: Dances of the Polovetzki Maidens, from Prince Igor (Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor: 4 sides). Stokowski at his brilliant best...
...necessary to snatch two or three top-flight experimental physicists from each of four or five U. S. universities-say Harvard. M. I. T., Caltech, Columbia, Chicago-put them to work together and then miraculously endow the new institution with the tradition and prestige of 68 years of brilliant achievement. Cambridge's Arthur Stanley Eddington, an astronomer and no Cavendish man himself, has described the laboratory as a "Mecca of physics for the Empire." Reason for Cavendish's supremacy may be simply stated. Cambridge and Oxford are the only two British universities with whopping endowments to provide...