Word: brighter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time to be in Europe, but a very critical time in the world's affairs. The economic and political chaos existing in many parts of the world calls for the most tolerant and broadminded statesmanship, especially among the great Powers. I hope and believe that 1924 will be brighter than 1923 as the world gradually struggles back from the great conflict. I cannot, of course, discuss international affairs or domestic policy, but I believe Anglo-American relations will grow more and more friendly as time goes on. I shall do my best toward that...
Although the situation was brighter in Warsaw, the capital, Hugh Gibson, U. S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Poland, preserved a dignified silence so far as the press was concerned. Whatever the situation was, is, or may become, Mr. Gibson's experience is such that he can be fully relied upon to protect U. S. interests in the land to which he is accredited...
...position of public office. And "public office is a public trust". With this conception of its own position the CRIMSON is in hearty accord. It agrees with the Bulletin that undergraduate editors "have their day and cease to be" and must hand on their trust untarnished and, if possible, brighter than ever. Difference of opinion develops not as to the end but as to the means...
...himself; all he needs to do is to write a paragraph or two in introduction and the body of the book which follows even though it be anthology, obligingly puts on a golden tinge. So with his latest collection of "Poems from 'Life'". The casual reader opens at the "brighter side of humour" in introduction, mildly interested in getting at the subject matter, smiles, chuckles, and finally laughs outright,--and the poetry that follows, good, bad, and indifferent, goes down as smoothly as syrup...
...course in an orderly and systematic manner. Tutoring is an old custom, and there will always be laggards or dullards who will turn to tutors for assistance. But if the dull and backward profit from a "boiled down", presentation of a subject, does it not follow that the brighter students would do likewise? As a matter of fact, is not the entire system built up by the "Widow" Nolen a reflection on the ignorance of how to study which is the heritage of most students...