Word: brighter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gordon is the only outfielder to be lost to the 1925 nine, and the return of C. L. Todd '26, the hard-hitting regular of last year: A. G. Rogers '26, the football halfback, and G. W. Burgess '25, the hockey wing, makes the outfield prospects brighter than those of any other department. Roger Doherty '26, who was ineligible last year, and G. E. Bennett '22, heavy hitter of last year's Freshman team promise to upset early predictions...
...years later he married "Margot," his second and present wife. This was a happy match, for Mrs. Asquith not only adored the ground upon which Herbert walked, but was possessed with a superabundance of energy motivated by her ambitions for her husband. Mr. Asquith's fortunes daily grew brighter...
...fellows each ought to bring out a friend, and if you can get 400 men out I'll guarantee we'll beat Yale. As it is, they've got the edge on paper, but we're going straight ahead, and I'll say right now, our chances are brighter than for several years to have a championship track team...
Like all Hearst pulps, these two have vast circulations. In June, 1924, they were: Cosmopolitan, 1,126,767; Hearst's International, 439,655. Publisher Hearst's reasons for lumping these can only be guessed at. Perhaps he thinks the Cosmopolitan can swell, bigger and brighter, to another million or so. Perhaps he is disgusted with
...deadened our minds and filled us with coarse ideas and material ideals. The trouble with them is that they are, like too many of us, generalizing on a subject of which they have seen only a very small phase. They have not seen and appreciated the greater and brighter stars of our intellectual and artistic firmament. They have judged merely by an analysis of the masses. It is true that the war had a bad effect on a majority of our people but it is equally true that it had a truly refining influence on a minority of Americans...