Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field of Psychology is medium-sized, having 63 concentrators, and is considered about the easiest in the College. The department is characterized by brilliant researchers, and poor tutoring. Since the subject is an inexact science, credit is given on examinations for original thought, making it still simpler to get by with a minimum of formal work. But pseudo-psychologists are warned that unless they have a real interested in the research possibilities of this growing subject, they will have a lonely and neglected academic three years...
Whitney. Poor lecturer, but a brilliant scholar. Helpful to advanced...
...right ladies and gentlemen, I'm telling the people around me to shut their damned mouths. . . . Everything is lit up. The U. S. battleship New York provides a particularly brilliant spectacle. ... In a minute they are going to fire some rockets...
...Socialist Julian Zugazagoita who announced that he would maintain internal order with a rod of iron. A weaker spot in the new Cabinet was in the Foreign Ministry. Julio Alvarez del Vayo, who during the Civil War has acquired the distinction of being one of Europe's most brilliant foreign ministers, had to be replaced because he is inextricably linked with former Premier Largo Caballero. The newly appointed Foreign Minister, Left Republican José Giral Pereira, though Premier last summer for six weeks, is a man of less spectacular record. Dr. Negrirt, however, did not waste...
...Varro would represent in modern Germany is anybody's guess, but Terence, the egotistical potter who briefly became an Emperor, is a dead ringer for Hitler. "To be an Emperor and a Leader meant nothing more to him than demonstrations, great public shows, parades, new buildings, brilliant festivals, power, glamour and above all speeches. When confronted with political and economic problems he withdrew with a dignified shake of the head into his divine majesty, convinced that if serious difficulties arose his inner voice would at once show him the right way." And to those who think Germans are happy...