Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, in Finland, a brilliant young architect named Alvar Aalto and his architect wife, Aino, really got somewhere with modern furniture. Influenced by the Bauhaus and Le Corbusier (real name: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), but experimenting in plywood instead of steel, they smoothed out geometric kinks, turned out chairs which combined the functional with good sense and charm. The Aaltos were the first to make chairs with pliant one-piece backs and resilient seats. They pioneered also in welding together layers of plywood with synthetic cement, cold-pressing them for six weeks into posture-pleasing shapes...
...That much brilliant research on glands had been wasted. Since glands are only part of the whole body, Sheldon deemed it more profitable to start with the whole. "Glands," he said, "probably determine personality only in the same sense that the long bones and the short ones, and the gut and the muscles and the skin, and the rest ... of the body determine personality...
...Channel with the Nazis only a few jumps behind, hard-pressed, sweating surgeons had to have some new and faster technique of treating wounds. Fortunately, most of them had read last winter the revolutionary work on wound surgery written after the small-scale war in Spain by brilliant Dr. Josep Trueta of Barcelona, now in England (TIME, Jan. 15). In treating 1,073 projectile fractures, Surgeon Trueta obtained wholly satisfactory results in 976 cases and there were only six deaths. His method: instead of lengthy and painstaking work in old-fashioned suturing and splinting (sewing up wounds and applying strips...
...spent his first college year. Vexed at Hugo's radical activities, his father, on his death bed, made the boy promise last year that he would give them up. At Michigan, Hugo ignored his promise, became a ringleader and vice president of the A. S. U. chapter. A brilliant student, he made Phi Beta Kappa, was vice president of the Student Senate, got a B.A. at Michigan last year, an M.A. in English literature this year...
...peak and most furious pitch of his book is reached in the life of Schlessing, a gross, uncontrollably brilliant Viennese financier, seducer, Superman, whose power is built on blackmail and near-diabolism. This story, like most others in the book, shows a virtuosity in action narrative that few detective story writers could match; its significance is that Schlessing, the tenth character, and The Pale One, the first, are the two spiritual poles of Jewry...