Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brilliant in intellect and sound and reasonable in his judgments...
From the bridge of the destroyer it had seemed to me we were just having target practice with our five inch guns, but that feeling of relaxation did not last long. Suddenly a brilliant parade of parachute flares began their slow descent above us, and we knew that enemy planes were overhead...
...this called for mathematical precision, and Admiral Hewitt brought to his task one of the most brilliant mathematical minds the Navy ever had. To his natural bent he had added some formidable experience. Last July he was given the job of planning the Moroccan landings. He had to design armored force landings, organize transport divisions and train 3,000 amphibious boat crews. He had to send his huge force across the Atlantic and still have it rendezvous at the exact time for the landings. His success brought him this, the biggest job of his life...
...shows in many respects the influence of Kousse-vitsky, with the addition, however, of more vigorous motion of the hands in lnd cating the smaller nuances. Fornand Gillet distinguished himself in several difficult oboe, passages, but Mrs. Goldovsky's rendering of the three Mozart arias was somewhat less than Brilliant. Her voice, though warm in tone, was lacking in firmness at times, and seemed strained on the high notes. The extreme range of the first aria, however, (low A to high C) may account for some of this difficulty. Richard Burgin, concert master of the Boston Symphony, demonstrated his remarkable...
...American press-is the Associated Press a monopoly?-finally reached court last week. On the expediting court bench sat three of the country's top-rank jurists, all of the U. S. Circuit Court: 1) learned Judge Learned Hand, 71, a remarkable stylist, liberal, a truly brilliant judge; 2) his cousin, Augustus Noble Hand, 73, singularly gifted with horse sense; 3) Thomas Walter Swan, 65, longtime (1916-37) dean of Yale's law school...