Word: brighter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cowles gave his first team a final work-out yesterday afternoon. A special effort has been made to get the team in the best possible shape so as to insure a creditable showing in Saturday's matches. The probable return of H. C. Janin '22 makes the outlook much brighter for the Union Boat Club match on January 14. Janin is a letter man of two years' experience but has been unable to play until recently...
...Shapley's studies of the famous star-cluster in Hercules known as "Messier 13" have proved that this cluster has a diameter of more than two and a half quadrillion miles, and contains probably more than fifty thousand stars, each of them intrinsically brighter than the sun. His researches have also played a large part in establishing the fact that the great star-clusters are found only at immense distances from the plane of the galaxy, or Milky Way, but appear to be falling into it. Dr. Shapley's hypothesis is that the Milky Way itself may be composed...
...been well rounded out, and it was to remedy this situation that Mr. Bingham was secured to coach the team this season. Certainly Saturday's meet showed that this difficulty has been at least partially solved, and it can be said that the prospects for beating Yale are brighter this spring than they have been for the last few years...
...other events the University team showed that it measured well up to expections. In only one event, the high jump, can the Crimson's strength be questioned, and with the return of Krogness the prospects in this event have become brighter. In the meet with U. of P. the University jumpers were handicapped by the muddy condition of the take-off, but their performance in the Penn State meet was much better...
...fall of 1914 an American mining engineer, a man about forty years of age, began the serious business of saving lives, or, to express it in another way, of preventing deaths from starvation. Is there in our history a brighter page than that on which is recorded the accomplishments of the Commission for Relief in Belgium? This engineer who conceived that Relief Commission and was its luminous head throughout the Great War has continued since the armistice in the same serious business of saving lives, of preventing death from starvation, making an uninterrupted service of six long years...