Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with some help from England, he wore them all out. For eleven years before 1756, Frederick had built up his army, laid down immense stores of supplies and munitions. He won great victories, suffered crashing defeats. For two days he even lost Berlin (to the Russians). But he was brilliant in defense and too stubborn to give up. In the end a change of rulers took Russia out of the war and Frederick got a treaty restoring the status quo ante...
...Kekule's vision of the benzene ring, which has been called "the most brilliant piece of prediction to be found in the whole range of organic chemistry," came to him in a dream about snakes. He wrote: "One of the snakes seized its own tail and the image whirled scornfully before my eyes. As though from a flash of lightning I awoke . . . occupied the rest of the night working out the consequences of the hypothesis...
...there was a distressing interruption. Brilliant Academician Charles Maurras, the aged royalist, had been sentenced to life imprisonment for collaboration (TIME, Feb. 5). Should he be expelled? Heretofore, the old men had loftily disregarded such problems-one of their colleagues was Marshal Petain. But what had he to do with the letter...
...policy included the Beveridge Plan for full employment (TIME, Nov. 20), a housing program calling for 750,000 new houses a year for five years. The personality was the conference's dominating president, Lady Violet Bonham Carter, 57, brilliant daughter of the late great Liberal Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith. A great friend of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Lady Violet said: "As the Tories once sheltered behind the Chamberlain umbrella, they will at the next election try to shelter behind the Churchill tank. . . . I would cut off my right hand for the Prime Minister, but I would rather die than...
...Orchestra of Milan's La Scala Opera, Umberto Berrettoni conducting, with Beniamino Gigli, Licia Albanese and others; Victor; 10 sides). An anthology containing practically all the brightest blossoms of Puccini's most popular opera, selected from Victor's previously released complete recording. The cast is brilliant, the singing rich in the best garlicky Italian tradition. Recording: good...