Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when sunspots are active, and sunspots have been more active in recent months than at any time since 1870. Last fortnight a magnetic storm of unusual violence caused transatlantic telephone communication by short-wave radio to fade out (TIME, Jan. 31). Last week, while the great aurora waved its brilliant folds across the sky, transatlantic short waves faded again...
...bite the hand of President Roosevelt, whose Treasury silver purchases from Mexico have alone saved the peso from collapse, was the scarcely brilliant move made last week by President Lazaro Cardenas. Well knowing that Mr. Roosevelt wants lower tariffs all around, that they are the thing dearest to Secretary of State Cordell Hull, President Cardenas blandly raised tariffs on most things Mexico buys from the U. S. by 100 to 200%. On some items he upped them...
...criticize his romantic cloud effects. They pointedly praise the correctness of his contemporaries, men primarily ornithologists like American Museum's Francis Lee Jaques. British Columbia's crack rifle shot Major Allan Brooks, Audubon Societies' youthful Roger Tory Peterson (Field Guide to the Birds), and the late brilliant Louis Agassiz Fuertes. But sportsmen and some collectors like the easy naturalism of Brasher's duck pictures, the spirit of his long-shanked road runner, the dash of his bald eagle. Accordingly, not many bird societies and libraries, but rather sportsmen and dilettantes - like Airplane Manufacturer William Edward Boeing...
With the scene tried at 18 all going its the fourth of five rounds, the match was to the locals an brilliant American compositions coupled themselves aid a sudden British collapse...
Magazines. The plague of picture magazines did not add a corresponding volume of advertising to the magazine business. But one picture magazine, LIFE, made the most brilliant new showing of the year by selling $7,300,000 worth of space in the first eleven months, crowding into the Big Eight.* The in other leading magazines carried $161,000,000 worth of advertising in 1937, a 15% gain...