Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After this, both attacks dissolved until the final seconds of the first period, when two well-executed plays by the Moseley, Huntington and Abbet line failed narrowly. Again, this brought B.C. to life, and this time it was only two brilliant saves by goalie Jack Lavalle, a standout all night, that broke up unassisted thrusts by Johnny McIntyre...
...find a new commandant for the U.S. Marine Corps to succeed retiring General A. A. Vandegrift, President Truman last week delved down to the eighth name on the rank list. His man: Major General Clifton B. Gates, 54, one of the Pacific war's most brilliant island-hopping campaigners, now boss of the Marine school at Quantico...
...hail hissed out of the clouds. The three trucks groped through it fearfully, for a skid might have rolled both trucks and mirror down the steep mountainside. Then, as the mirror neared the observatory dome-shining like frosted silver and big as a railroad roundhouse-a shaft of brilliant sunlight broke through the clouds. The nearest star, the sun, was friendly...
Instantaneous Audience Measurement Service was invented by Dr. Peter C. Goldmark, 40, CBS's bashful, brilliant chief engineer and color television genius. I.A.M.S.'s listening posts will be little black gadget boxes attached to the family radio in "scientifically selected" homes. These boxes, responding to signals from station transmitters, will flash radio messages back at the rate of one a minute. At the station, these thousands of messages will be electronically counted and translated into graphs showing a program's minute-to-minute popularity...
...Fancy Free. Disney's famous fauna, plus Edgar Bergen and Dinah Shore, put on a show that ranges from bad to brilliant and is generally easy to like (TIME...