Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week. He had done a decently good job of bombing; he had smashed up some buildings, some airplanes. He had managed to grab a precarious foothold on a beach 260 miles from the center of Luzon's resistance. But the Army's Far Eastern Commander, lean, brilliant Lieut. General Douglas MacArthur, and his grizzled Navy sidekick, Admiral Tommy Hart, had been waiting with their knives...
...Hutson, the scamper end, who has turned in the most brilliant perform ance in pro football. He not only holds practically every pass-receiving record in the National Football League, but has this season set a new record for points scored: twelve touchdowns (ten on passes), 20 points after touchdown and one field goal for a total of 95 points. The only pro ever to catch three touch down passes in each of four games, his football record has begun to take on the glamor of baseball's Babe Ruth's. In seven seasons, Hutson has scored...
Poetry. Most distinguished poem of the year was W. H. Auden's The Double Man ($2), a brilliant attempt to outwit the age's prevailing schizophrenia, and to focus at least a statement of the problem of evil and of the possibility of hope. All this it managed in verses as clear and casual as The New Yorker's, though wittier. Louis MacNeice published his collected poems ($2.50). The one durable translation was Robert Fitzgerald's Oedipus at Colonus ($1.50), which made clear that Sophocles was not, as other translations suggest, an unsuccessful Victorian imitator...
...Gifford is one of those boys who make plays'" said Collins. Collins also stated that, "Herskovitz was brilliant in some games...
Captain Dick Thomas of the Crimson Varsity defeated his 155-pound opponent in one of the afternoon's most brilliant and one-sided exhibitions, by pinning his man in the second period with a bar arm and body press and in the third with a vicious keylock...