Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...closing, Ross observes, "the problems of adapting a university to the hard facts of restricted income, and at the same time developing a brilliant Faculty, are enormously complicated ones, involving that most delicate human factor--morale and cannot be solved with...
...wardrobe of loud suits, he had been phenomenally successful as a publisher, fairly successful in politics, utterly unsuccessful in getting himself widely liked. He was an outlander and he could get things done, and for one thing as much as the other stodgy Britons mistrusted him. In Britain "brilliant" is an opprobrious term...
Little José Félix Estigarribia was bom of a family that had been rich and powerful in Asuncion for generations. As a boy he wanted to be an agricultural expert, but finally decided on the Army. So brilliant was his work at the Asuncion Military Academy that he won a scholarship in the Chilean Army, later went to Europe where he boned up on French tactics at the Ecole Supérieure de Guerre. Soon after his return to Paraguay, war broke out with Bolivia. For three years he kept winning promotions in the Chaco jungles, rose...
...thrown last week by SEC's figures on who bought what: from May 10 to July 27, when the averages were recovering from their Blitzkrieg low of around 110, the Street professionals had their minds on Europe, were on balance sellers of stocks (680,269 shares net). In brilliant contrast for once was the performance of the small fry who trade in odd lots: beginning May 10 they bought 1,153,000 shares more than they sold. Not until August did the pros take over the buying initiative. By last week they were resigned to the fact that they...
...husband and running away with Liszt after they had wept together over one of those novels by George Sand in which the heroines always prefer passion to domesticity. The Piffoel family was Authoress Sand and her children. Part of the confusion of genders came about because Liszt's brilliant pupil, Hermann Cohen, another of the party, insisted on wearing girl's clothes. Madame Sand insisted on wearing men's clothes. They were Romantics, and these were the signs of their emancipation...