Word: brighter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...California gave Professor Jeffer's confirmation by observation on September 21, declaring it to be of the seventh magnitude, just beyond the range of unaided human vision, but, visible with the aid of a small telescope. If both these observations are correctly reported, the comet seems to be growing brighter...
Money continues easy, and, judging from the last cut in the Reserve rate, may be expected to continue so for some time. Foreign political outlook is visibly brighter, also foreign bonds and exchange in consequence. Domestic finance is absorbed by railway mergers on a large scale. International finance is even more alert over coming foreign loan flotations...
...Wilson Observatory, writing in Scribner's Magazine (June), tells what is now known about sun spots. Sun spots are believed to be (though no astronomer is certain about it) regions of incandescent gas on the sun's surface, whirling with a centrifugal motion. Although they are really brighter and hotter than the most powerful electric light, they are so much cooler than the 'body of the sun itself, that they appear to us as dark spots. They move in very definite cycles of eleven years and one month. Starting at the poles of the sun, the spots...
...University won the intercollegiate golf title which J. W. Hubbell '17 captured in that year, but on June 24 the University team will travel to Greenwich, Conn., it was announced last night, and the chances of regaining the team title, if not the individual title, are brighter than for many years past. Dexter Cummings, the Eli star, is the present champion, while Princeton holds the team trophy...
...showing of the University in this encounter augurs well for the last match of the season with Yale on Saturday. Ingraham's showing against Coleman made the prospects of a victory over Arnold Jones, Captain of the Yale team, seem much brighter...