Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extremists set out to restore the military aristocracy, to dominate the Gov ernment, to make the sacrosanct Emperor what the brilliant former editor of the Kobe Japan Chronicle, A. Morgan Young, has called - since he left Japan in 1937 -the "Grand Mascot" of warriors rather than of monopoly capitalists...
...hold on the people seemed weaker, its hold on a Parliamentary majority was unquestioned. Speaking at Manchester, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden said: "We shall take no action to gain a transient popular favor. . . . War is a long-term business. The issue will not be settled by any sudden, brilliant improvisation. Not one of my colleagues in the War Cabinet would pretend that ... we have made no mistakes . . . but we do think that our efforts, and above all our Prime Minister, have merited a measure of your confidence...
...Boston pianist. The opportunity to hear Huberman is a rare and exceptional one, for Huberman has in past years been known to this country chiefly through his tremendous reputation in Europe. Those who know his recording of the Tchaikowski Violin Concerto may recall that his style in that is brilliant and flashy, pretty much on the slick side, and he seems to be the only one of the Leopold Auer brood of violinists who has developed this way. It would be interesting to compare his concert Sunday with the old recording, and if the two jibe, to draw interesting...
...pushover for Coach Bernie Bierman's gigantic Gophers, favorites to win the mythical 1941 football championship of the U.S. as they did the 1940. But last week Michigan's omens improved: Michigan outsmarted Northwestern (14-to-7). More important for the superstitious, its victory was won with brilliant touchdown passes of a sophomore named Tom Kuzma, who comes from Tom Harmon's home town of Gary, Ind., and plays in Harmon's old tailback position...
Among those who filled in for the regulars. Cleo O'Donnell, Dick Row, and Russ Stanford were outstanding. Nobody can be picked out of that starting lineup as any more brilliant than the rest. Starting with Bill Baracs, who filled in more than ably for Loren MacKinney at left end, and going right down the line through Vern Miller, Chub Peabody, Johnny Page, Dick Pfister, Tom Gardiner, and Don Forte, they were all "terrific...