Word: geniuses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...half time, thought they were listening to a basketball game - or an Atlantic City auction. By sixes and sevens, the score jumped: "35, 41, 47, no 48, 54." Those who actually saw the game were even more dumfounded. With Sid Luckman, onetime Columbia star, calling the plays with the genius of a clairvoyant, the Bears were a perfect football machine. By the end of the third quarter, the game had become an undignified rout. At the end of the last quarter, it was a massacre...
Rudolf Diesel was proud, sensitive, generous, an engineering genius, but not endowed with much money sense. He was a man of the world who spoke fluently not only German but French and English. His father, sprig of a Bavarian Protestant family which had produced craftsmen and tradesmen for generations, was a restless bookbinder who went from Augsburg to Paris. Rudolf, born in Paris in 1858, learned to use his hands in his father's atelier, delivered finished goods in a pushcart. Stirred by the ferment of new inventions-the storage battery, the gas engine, electric lights, dry-plate photography...
...only one of Kierkegaard's best books* but luckily his most interesting to ordinary, unmystical readers. And because his musings on the erotic are so lucid, irreligious mankind will respect this essentially religious thinker. Judges Translator Lowrie, "The Stages is clearly a work of genius...
...obsessed by an adolescent sense of death, with a knack for popular expression of it. Yeats used magic as Dante used Catholicism, as the spine or frame that great poetry needs. But T. E. Lawrence exemplifies the desperation, the brilliance, the failure, of the man of genius who can find no frame...
...have many fundamental factors in our favor as to armament. Our stock piles of raw materials are ample. Our production facilities are greater than these of any possible combination of hestile powers. Our inventive genius in unsurpassed. With such resources we shall have no excuse if our army is not completely motorized, if it does not have the arms of the greatest fire-power, if it does not have planes of the greatest performance and in the greatest numbers...