Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that anyone could hold him was to let him go. He loved life, he could enjoy things more than almost anyone I have ever known. He had fine qualities, generosity, a warmth of heart which brought him an endless number of friends, courage which amounted almost to foolhardiness, a brilliant mind and a capacity for work which, in his younger days, made him able to perform prodigious tasks, both physically and mentally...
...last visitors shuffled out into the brilliant sunshine of Manhattan's Battery Park. Inside the Aquarium, the big pool where the sea lions once arched their sleek backs was empty; in the green gloom of the cavernous, dank galleries, water gurgled away, the lights went dark. The world's biggest marine exhibit, its denizens shipped away, was being dismantled...
...Assistant Professorship, and at the same time relieved from the drudgery of reading themes. In a few weeks President Eliot gave a reception at his house, and asked me if I had yet met Professor Kittredge, "for," said he, " we regard him as one of the most brilliant scholars in America." Kittredge was then 30 years old, and must already have had grey hair and beard, for I cannot remember him otherwise. He was as miraculous physically as intellectually; for at a short distance he looked to be 60 years old and during the next 50 years remained exactly...
...people the biggest part--of Harvard. His inimitable classroom or actor's manner, which differed entirely from that of his private life, will long be perpetuated in the innumerable anecdotes, some true, many apocryphal, that have, cycle-wise been attracted to his name. A great teacher who was a brilliant actor, he became to undergraduates and to the fourth estate a legendary figure an unfalling source of entertaining "copy". But too much has been said and printed about his delibarately assumed if effective, mannerisms. Graduate students and colleagues, though of course impressed and diverted by them, will remember...
Four Sears prizes, of $400 each, awarded annually at the Harvard Law School to the students who have done the most brilliant work in their class during the previous year, were announced today...