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With the advent of electric lights which brighten man's night so that he is unable to see the sky, lay interest in astronomy has dwindled. The most lowly, ignorant shepherd in Christ's time knew more astronomy than any one of a thousand enlightened moderns...
...Publisher Ochs was delighted to brighten with Nosko's screed the dull squabbles or the maudlin applause of his other correspondents, he was even more delighted to observe that a controversy had been started which concerned not Josef Nosko's mongrel, Buster, but the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In the process of the controversy, as detailed in the news columns of the Times, the A. S. P. C. A. was accused of malpractices more disreputable than the theft of Nosko's Buster...
Last week the last Pollier corporation was found to possess only a rented office, some hired furniture and not a sou in the bank. Friends of Professor Pollier sent bouquets and potted flowers to brighten his cell, declared that he is innocent, the mere dupe of a master swindler in London, one "Michael Neutski, a Russian...
...this will not suffice, in our judgment, unless as soon as possible after the "houses" have been established and the first few allotments made the faculty allows the students themselves every reasonable freedom in choosing to which groups they will adhere. Nothing so strongly persuades a human being to "brighten the corner" where he is as the fact that he picked it. --New York Herald-Tribune...
Spring was beginning to brighten over the hills of Nazareth, in Galilee. Mary watched the dandelions, listened to the birds, dreamed of the bridalhood soon to crown her betrothal to the boy Joseph. But one night a voice clove through her dreams like a sword edged with moonlight : "Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women...