Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fastest tap dancer on the Pantages circuit, cruised over Lake Washington. In the immense structural shop at the Charleston Navy Yard the work went on: the steel plates rumbled through the press rolls in surging roars, the hydraulic presses crunched down, the giant shears clamped through metal, the brilliant blue glare from the arc welders shot up through the steeple-high cranes that crawled overhead. There the men with boilermakers' ears said things to each other that involved no questions about the fleet...
...main fame is based on his brilliant work before and at Dunkirk. As Lord Gort's Chief of Staff-the same job in France as this one in Asia-he carried the entire responsibility for the details of withdrawal. With scarcely any sleep at all, he moved G.H.Q. eight times in 20 days, took the worst news without blinking, seldom referred to maps because he carried a large-scale one around in his head...
...most exciting game was the 48 to 44 loss to Bradley Tech, one of the best teams in the country. The Crimson trailed 24 to 19 at the half, but some brilliant sharp shooting by Lutz scored nine quick points to lead a rally which tied the game at 44 to 44 with only two minutes to go. But two last minute field goals by Ramsey and Hansen clinched the game for the westerners...
Violinist Hubermann, 59-year-old Polish Jew, has often been rated one of Europe's greatest, but in the U.S. and London he has never been such big box office as mellow Fritz Kreisler, brilliant Jascha Heifetz, musicianly Joseph Szigeti. Hubermann is finicky, fussy on the platform. Once he noticed that his audience included a dog, on a woman's lap. He stopped playing, demanded: "Madam, has your little dog paid for his ticket?", waited while woman and dog were hustled...
...times more than the world's biggest X-ray machine. It can out-radiate all the extracted radium supplies on earth-and its further abilities have scarcely been explored. While U.S. scientists speculated upon the discoveries the device might lead to, they welcomed to their front ranks its brilliant young inventor, Donald William Kerst, 30, who calls the machine a "betatron." The cyclotron, whose invention won a Nobel Prize for University of California's Ernest Orlando Lawrence, hurls positively charged particles, the nuclei of atoms. But the betatron hurls the negatively charged particles which spin about the nuclei...