Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brilliant, impatient Finance Minister Federico Pinedo, who has a plan for the long-term refinancing of Argentine industry by the Central Bank of Argentina and the Government. Most Conservatives are against the Pinedo Plan because they fear its provision empowering the Government to mobilize private bank funds. Radicals are against it because they believe that Pinedo, an ambitious Conservative politician, wants to use it to ride into the Presidency in 1944. Nevertheless, with some difficulty and some pruning, Finance Minister Pinedo pushed his plan through the Conservative-dominated Senate. To get it through the Chamber of Deputies, which...
Last week, on the twelfth floor of the Institute, a hundred noted psychiatrists and neurologists gathered in the library, wandered into the small, wood-paneled room that houses the only Freud collection in the world, to peer at the worn volumes, the sarcastic marginal notes, the underscorings and brilliant comments...
...weird, restive, distorted canvases the work of a madman. Critics suggested that he was astigmatic, if not insane. When he died in 1614 his fame was already on the wane, and soon his greatest paintings were tucked away in dim sacristies and behind altars. The flashy, flattering portraits of brilliant Court-painter Velásquez became the rage, and El Greco was forgotten. Forgotten he remained for nearly 300 years...
...teacher, however, that he was best known by undergraduates. For his brilliant instruction in Mathematics A and 3, he was deeply admired by his students, try, Professor Graustein was a member...
...comfortable third-place position from which to launch its post-examination drive in February. It was by the narrowest of margins, however, that the Lions won their overtime 40-38 decision over Yale on Saturday night. Brightest feature of the night for the Light Blue was the brilliant scoring of Bill Hasslinger, rangy Junior center. Held to two points by Cornell earlier in the week when he went out on fouls midway in the first period, Hasslinger came back to chalk up 19 markers against Yale, showing much of the scoring ability he had flashed against Navy a week earlier...