Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians mechanically ignorant? Their workmen can handle mechanical equipment as well as any U.S. mechanic-thanks to the universities and trade schools of Russia, where the lazy, incompetent or dull pay high tuition, the brilliant pay little or nothing...
...title-piece consists of ten propitious chapters of the novel Wolfe was working on when he died. The Hills Beyond was to be the story of the ancestors of George Webber. In these chapters Wolfe laid out a brilliant panorama of 19th-Century Southern society, its law, war, murder and myth. Somewhere past midstream in his transition from wild lyric romanticism to humanism, this prose here lost in effusive splendor, but gained in wit, firmness and control...
...Most brilliant play of the game came in the second period when Penny Pendleton of Exeter grabbed a Harvard punt on his own 45-yard line and scampered 55 yards to cross the goal line standing up. Not one Crimson player got close enough for a tackle...
...Coast, every college is out to trip Stanford, favorite to Notre Dame Halfback Jack Warner. win the Conference title again this year. Backs Hugh Gallarneau and Norman Standlee have graduated to professional football; Pete Kmetovic is the only ball-carrying regular left over. But Quarterback Frankie Albert, the blithe, brilliant southpaw who is the key man of Stanford's devastating T formation, will still handle the ball-carriers, whoever they...
Frogs and Kitchen Tables. Born in 1850, the son of a Connecticut country doctor, William Henry Welch had no taste for medicine. He entered Columbia's medical school after a brilliant career in Yale, because he could not get the Greek instructorship he wanted. But once on his way, he gave his whole heart to medicine...