Word: brighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This difference allows astronomers to photograph the brighter parts of the sun's atmosphere with a "spectroheliograph," a prism spectroscope which casts sunlight of only one color on a photographic plate. The light from the solar atmosphere, glowing in that color, shows in the picture. Most of the dazzling light from the surface, being of other colors, is excluded by the spectroscope...
Morrison described the Fabian way: "Discussion, argument, reading, research, often confined to small groups of people, are the sound foundations for a nation's advancing freedom and social responsibility. Attlee gave an account of the Society's history that might have been brighter. He omitted, for instance, Shaw's account of the dear, dead days when he, H. G. Wells, Beatrice and Sidney Webb and other veterans lived in an "eternal political shop . . . mornings of dogged writing, all in our separate rooms; our ravenous plain meals . . . Beatrice throwing away her pen and hurling herself on her husband...
...second half of the Friday program showed the Symphony on its brighter side, thus completing the puzzle for the audience. In the suite from the Prokofieff ballet "Chout", Burgin had chosen something off the beaten track but at the same time eminently worthwhile and interesting. The suite catches amazingly well the comic characteristics of this very humorous ballet, written by the man who must be considered the leading humorist among the world's composers. Burgin's interpretation added considerably to the effect. Here he had displayed originality of choice and accomplished performance at once...
...brighter side of the picture, Kenny Chun, Chinese stylist who plays at the left inside slot, has rejoined the squad after a week's absence. The team should profit during the rest of the season by the much improved play of Hugh Morse, who has shaped up as one of the best forwards on the Varsity...
...pairs, equipped with orange-&-black arm bands labeled "G.I. Lutheran Team," they spent three weeks last month calling on each of the 600 families represented in the congregation. They pointed out to AWOL church members that though times are dark, if more people went to church, things might get brighter. Most Sunday stay-at-homes promised to mend their ways; only one family gave the G.I.s a complete brushoff...