Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lombardo could be bought, he would lose the one source of his strength-the devotion and faith of the peons. For four years of Cárdenas' administration, he was the brilliant, aggressive and fluid leader of Mexican labor. With the help of Cárdenas he formed and headed the restless, left-wing confederation of workers known as the C.T.M. until shortly after Avila Camacho became President of Mexico. Then Lombardo stepped down with the comment: "I leave office a rich man-rich in the hatred of the bourgeoisie." If he is also frequently feared in Mexico...
After two weeks of brilliant and pains taking labor, the "Red Squire" looked years older. So great had been his confidence in the plan that he had expected to be on his way back to London this week. It was almost inconceivable to him that his beloved Indians would not readily and cheerfully accept his English version of Christian idealism...
Americans who have listened through radio's well-meant, sometimes brilliant but often talky, overdone, and unrealistic attempt to propagandize the war since Dec. 7 had something to stand up and cheer for last week: The Army Hour. A brand-new, 60-minute Sunday afternoon show put on by the U.S. Army, it had the welcome ring of authenticity...
...wore a pair of brown tights, as did all the supers (male), a green cloth headress of the Easter fashions of 3478 B. C., and a brilliant red tunic. I termed my group the Red soldiers. Harry was a soldier in what I called the Rainbow Division, evidently founded by the color-loving Joseph during his stay with the Pharaohs. His tunic was a thing of radiant beauty if viewed from after, and his helmet shimmered in the African glare of the kleig lights. Bung was a nobody, a gray sort of individual with no color...
...were less than half the jobs open to more than four times as many college men, and it became apparent that there was a large gap between the training that the humanities and social sciences offered, and the demand for that training in the world of business and industry. Brilliant men, with A.B.'s in Fine Arts, Romance Languages, History--any of the vast choices which were regarded as the bulwarks of the "liberal and humane tradition," had little to offer in the way of specialized skill. Unless they went on to graduate school, and from there into a profession...