Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's Varsity mermen rolled up one of their most impressive victories in three years when they submerged Brown 62 to 13 in the Holyoke Street pool Wednesday night. Captain Frannie Powers set the pace for the Ulenmen with a brilliant 2:15.5 effort in the 220 and a sparkling 53.4 victory in the century, making it the best night of his career...
...Sperti found Sister Mary Jordan Carroll a "brilliant student," quick-fingered and witty as well. She and Professor J. C. Fardon did an astute experiment on the eye colors of Drosophila melanogaster, the scientifically renowned fruit fly. They made spectroscopic analyses of the pigments, found there was only one basic, sepia-hued pigment which was present in varying amounts under the control of the genes. In 1938 Sister Mary Jordan Carroll's paper on this work attracted wide notice...
Base Hospital No. 5, reorganized by the Medical School in November 1939, after a 20 year interruption of service, and recently called to active duty by the War Department, is succeeding to a brilliant tradition established in the last...
Dutch Lentz's men kept an average lead of 11 points over the smaller Crimson sextet. But a brilliant scoring surge, mostly in the person of sharpshooter Ed Buckley tied the game up at 37 to 37 at the end of the regulation playing time...
...career in the theatre went back to 1871; in Manhattan. "Uncle Dan," who first made himself useful as the 15-year-old New York Tribune copy boy who could decipher Horace Greeley's handwriting, learned about the theatre as advance agent for a minstrel show. But unlike his brilliant brother Charles (lost on the Lusitania in 1915), who organized huge nationwide theatre combines, he limited his productions to Manhattan and, after 1885, chiefly to one theatre. In the roster of his great Lyceum Theatre Stock Company (with David Belasco as stage manager) were E. H. Sothern, Julia Marlowe, Richard...