Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brilliant stroke, the Americans under General MacArthur have changed the ancient traffic pattern of the Philippines from left-to right-side driving. Mopping-up operations are now in progress...
...narrowness" are old-timers who do not know how much its teaching has been liberalized in recent years. Most departments keep well up on civilian programs in teaching, make many innovations of their own. The out standing example is the department of economics, government and history, headed by brilliant Colonel Herman Beukema (pronounced Bew'-kuma). In the touchy field of international relations, he encourages both instructors and students to speak their opinions freely. His textbooks are kept so thoroughly updated that the new est (covering events up to January 1, 1945) are still unbound...
...Army's present general officers are West Pointers.* First Captain (now 2nd Lieut.) Robert Woods will take his place in battle with the Long Grey Lines as soon as he has finished a course in the Infantry School at Fort Benning. Whether he will follow in the brilliant footsteps of such First Captains as Robert E. Lee, John J. Pershing and Douglas MacArthur, only time can tell. Whether he does or not, he is clearly a good man to have on our side...
Most animals are color blind. The matador's cape is bright red only for the human actors and audience; the bull would be even more enraged by a pure white one. Even among animals which can distinguish color, notably fish and birds, brilliant markings do not influence the female's choice of a mate. They serve primarily to intimidate other males. The barnyard turkey's puffing and strutting are intended to advertise his dominance, maintain his social position, defend his territory. The female turkey responds to bluff, not beauty...
Unlike most of his fellow alumni, Arthur Koestler has succeeded in transforming his private horrors into brilliant pictures of contemporary life, his screams into some of the best of contemporary writing. His brush with death in Spain and France, plus his disillusioning lessons as a revolutionary, gave him the material for such bleak disquisitions as Dialogue with Death, Scum of the Earth, Arrival and Departure, and also for one of the finest novels of the past decade, Darkness at Noon (TIME...