Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Montreal with three stenographers bustled I. P. & P.'s stocky thick-lipped president, Archibald Robertson Graustein, onetime infant prodigy, brilliant Harvard scholar (TIME, April 29). Newsprint at $60 the ton was impossible! President Graustein had columns of figures at the tip of his tongue. Speaking with the authority of a half-billion-dollar corporation, he was ready to prove his point. A spur to his arguments was the uncomfortable fact that I. P. & P. had a four-year contract to supply Publisher William Randolph Hearst with newsprint at a price range of $50 to $55 a ton, and breaking...
...mingle with the faculty to have the lamp of truth in the very midst of their lives instead of only on the classroom fringe-for the so-called "inner-college" plan provides professors' rooms in the dormitories. This may prove a valuable stimulus to that class of students inherently brilliant, but also lazy, who would like to know some bother to find them...
...squad, would decline the invitation to play on the all eastern football in its Western conflict on the coast this month, was made known yesterday. The invitation which was extended only to senior members of eastern teams in the majority of cases allowed for the exception of Ticknor whose brilliant play resulted in his selection for the center position on almost every one of the mythical "All-American" teams published by sporting authorities...
...unanimous choice as captain of the 1930 eleven speaks volumes for the confidence which his teammates spokesmen for the entire undergraduate body have in his ability as a leader and a player. For two years the rangy Crimson center has proven a tower of offensive and defensive strength. His brilliant play this fall has won him the praises of coaches and experts who have watched him and his name has figured on all the "All" teams chosen so far. Ticknor's forte has been his sensational defensive work; his remarkable ability to diagnose the opposing plays coupled with his great...
...Harvard should receive full credit for defeating a team which was supposed to be better than the Cimson. The game was a brilliant one, inwhich a great team won."--Marvin A Stevens, Yale head coach...