Word: brightening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Even in Germany, Austria, Italy and Poland, there are men like Surgeon Stoel whose courage and convictions will brighten the future of Europe's children...
Cleveland then asked him to brighten up the Great Lakes Exposition. For Cleveland, Billy dreamed up a water ballet "with Lake Erie for a stage and Canada for a backdrop." He called it the Aquacade, and in 1939 brought it east to New York's World's Fair...
...Unfortunate Custom." The bishopric of Fulham began in the days of Charles I, when a lonely chaplain in charge of the small English community at Ghent asked the Bishop of London to lighten his solitude and brighten his prestige by sending a bishop out for an occasional visit. The Bishop of London responded by creating the first Bishop of Fulham. Technically, the bishop has no diocese, but acts as administrator for North and Central Europe, which is still a suffragan bishopric of London...
...great good humor, the Republicans sat back to enjoy the row. Their own primary was not expected to unwrap any odds-on candidate. But any Democratic discord was sure to brighten their chances in the fall...
...mark for the world's milers to shoot at. It would also leave U.S. indoor track promoters, who had hoped to offer their customers a winter fare of Hagg and Andersson, facing an immediately bleak future. One Simon-pure Swede who might help to brighten the picture: Lennart Strand, a newcomer who has beaten both Hagg and Andersson in recent months-apparently on an empty stomach...