Word: brighter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years Negroes in the South have with impunity poured kerosene into their stoves to make wood fires burn brighter. The 22 "bad niggers" were not particularly alarmed when the rivulets on the truck floor took fire from the burning paper. But this was not kerosene but gasoline. A lacework of flames raced across the truck floor. Several men stamped their feet in the burning trickles. Then suddenly the five-gallon can went up in flames. Twenty-two "bad niggers" rushed to the front of the truck, began to holler...
...Manhattan. Author of many a novel and history on Western subjects, Mr. Chapman achieved fame through his lines: Out where the handclasp's a little stronger, Out where the smile dwells a little longer, That's where the West begins; Out where the sun is a little brighter, Where the snows that fall are a trifle whiter, Where the bonds of home are a wee bit tighter, That's where the West begins...
...McGraw took two pairs of identical twins, turned one member of each pair into a prodigy of confidence and skill (TIME, Sept. 18, 1933 et seq.). Last week pretty, inventive Dr. McGraw told members of Manhattan's Town Hall Club about a new twist in her campaign for brighter babies...
...Lick Observatory, California, that the Nova appeared to be taking the form of a double star. The gases around the nucleus take an eliptical form which we see from the side as a straight line, or nearly so. As nebulous matter appears thicker at the ends, these points appear brighter. The nebulous cloud is so bright as to dominate all light from the nucleus itself...
...inbred school. When a son s born to an old Grotonian, the happy news is wired to the Rector, who enters the child on the list of favored applicants. Result is that out of a student body permanently fixed at 180 boys, 94 are sons of alumni. Brighter than these are apt to be the ten boys admitted each year by competitive examination. Groton's scholastic standing is high, partly because it drills for College Board Examinations...