Word: brighter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been pointed out in the press. All sorts of price movements and trade conditions have been mysteriously explained as due to foreign buying. Undoubtedly the American bond market and American construction and realty enterprises have absorbed foreign funds-how much no one really knows. Now the foreign situation appears brighter, following the Dawes report, and financial scribes are confidently attributing almost everything to "the withdrawal of foreign funds." The movement of exchange rates to some extent accords with this assumption. Yet new tendencies in our building trade and our stockmarket cannot wholly be explained, by even so attractive a theory...
...marched impatiently across the last years of the 19th Century, while Titanic voices prophesied the glory of a bigger, brighter, better age to come, an Episcopal clergyman, vital, imaginative, brilliant, went forth to serve God in Arkansas. Vision and power were his. He felt the kingdom of Heaven was not impossible of fulfillment in America. He became Bishop. Let men love one another and praise...
...fairly certain conditions have become apparent. The flight of capital from abroad is stopping, as the slump in our security market shows. Moreover, the European situation is slowly turning brighter. Germany is acting more anxious to pay at least some reparations. France is less threatening and more conciliatory. England is becoming used to her new "Labour" government. Trade with Russia is in prospect...
...Carmlehael saw the brighter side to the case, however. "Why it's the biggest advertising I've ever had in this store," he declared. "And it's all free. I'm getting ready for a large sale of records after Monday...
...southern Milky Way, and in the Magellanic Clouds. A special telescope with wide-angle lens carries on the photographic patrol of the whole southern sky--an investigation long maintained by the University in order to have a continuous record of the variations or of any unusual behavior of the brighter stars...