Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Graduated from Harvard in 1909, and from Harvard Medical School in 1913, Dr. Cutler has become the author of many brilliant achievements, such as performing the first successful operation on the human heart, in 1923. Chief surgeon of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital since 1932, and head of the medical aid division of the Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety, he is one of the most distinguished of American surgeons...
...week there were differences, and the differences favored the Germans. When the Red soldiers found a group of German tanks, they also found German artillery and mortars, bunched to answer the Russian fire. And, in vital sectors, Moscow had to admit that, for all the Red Army's brilliant artillery and anti-tank tactics, for all its carefully devised defense-in-depth, the Germans with their composite columns outnumbered the Russians in men and weapons. Ominous, too, was Moscow's statement that in at least one sector where the Russians retreated the Luftwaffe's control...
...that the invaders had buried enough explosives on the beaches to conduct a two-year campaign of destruction. The invaders had not lasted long-nor done any reported damage. Before they had time to start their operations, they had been captured in what the FBI chief indicated was a brilliant, decisive stroke. Six had been seized within ten days; the other two, four days later in Chicago...
Pursuit Grey. For years fashion dictators switched colors for fashion-enslaved U.S. women at least twice a year. Now WPB has frozen stocks of ten basic vat dyes necessary for Army and Navy uniforms. Gone will be the frozen colors, all the brilliant shades, clear white. Black is also unfeatured on the ground that it is depressingly unpatriotic for all but widows...
...three jiggers of whiskey sharpen the senses for a few minutes, also increase muscular skill. At the same time, liquor -by blunting higher brain centers -dulls judgment, makes it difficult to discriminate between the loudness of two tones, brightness of two lights, truth of two ideas. The "brilliant conversation" induced by champagne is merely a flow of "superficial ideas" which are freed from the restraint of the brain's censor...