Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Michigan University Law School (1894), he started at the bottom in a small gypsum plant owned by his father. At 22 he was manager. In 1901 the company was absorbed by the U.S. Gypsum Co.; four years later, Sewell Avery was president of U.S. Gypsum. A suave and brilliant supersalesman, he built the company into an $81,000,000 concern, made it one of the largest purveyors of building materials in the U.S. He is still the company's board chairman...
...Allies, the crushing load pressed most heavily on sunny General Dwight David Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander, his brilliant, pipe-smoking deputy, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, on airmen like Britain's Leigh-Mallory and the U.S.'s "Tooey" Spaatz, on seamen like Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsey and U.S. Rear Admiral Alan Kirk. And a special weight pressed on two of their top subordinates: Cromwellian General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, and Lincolnesque Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley, A.U.S...
...Classmate of Mine." Cadet Omar Bradley graduated No. 44 in the class of 164 men; Eisenhower, who roomed across the hall, was 61. Serious, shy Omar had only 19 demerits for his course, stood sixth in conduct; brilliant, gregarious Ike had 100, stood 125th...
Lanky, native-wise Lieut. Galen H. Sturgeon read a proclamation establishing military government, enjoining the natives to help the U.S. An interpreter shouted his echo. The natives, in brilliant ragbag costumes, listened, their long, brown faces expressionless. Then an old chief asked: "May we pray...
...audience] glanced over their shoulders, they might catch an ottoman in the act of pouncing. . . . Pianos playfully wedged old ladies against the walls . . . hassocks stood up and tapped out messages [once the spirits ordered beer for Mr. Home] . . . folding doors swung unnervingly open and shut." To his brilliant repertory of telekinesis (the "science" of moving ob jects without touching them) young Home added the summoning of "pseudopods" (spiritual arms and hands which calmly handed plates and played the piano...