Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Great Britain, the U.S. and Russia got their first clear understanding of the war, of how their leaders proposed to win it, and of what they had recently been doing to win it. In the light of history, last week may be more memorable for this than for the brilliant occupation of North Africa, or for the assurance that the offensives now beginning will create a real front in Europe...
...brilliant nova (new star) suddenly appeared in the southern sky (over Africa and South America) on the weekend that Lieut. General Dwight Eisenhower opened the African front. It is the brightest nova that has appeared in the sky since 1918, the year of the Armistice...
Actually its brilliant light is evidence of the explosion of a distant sun which may have occurred many years ago. Although light travels six trillion miles in a year, many stars are so distant that centuries elapse before their light reaches the earth. Nothing is known of the new star's distance from the earth. Nothing can be predicted about its future. It may become much brighter and linger for months or years, or it may soon fade and completely disappear...
...June 19, 1933), two years ago abruptly severed relations with his own dream college, North Carolina's Black Mountain. Now the professor is back in the news with a Harper prize book, I Came Out of the 18th Century ($3). His brooding, mordant autobiography reveals him as a brilliant critic of teaching and an acid critic of teachers...
...orchestra itself, immensely improved by a Radcliffe invasion of the string section, will play a Bach suite in C major, a Minuet by Ravel, and last but not least, the brilliant "Fingal's Cave Overture" by Mendelssohn. From what I heard in Sandors last night, the new faces in this year's composite orchestra will make up, visually and aurally, for the loss...