Word: brighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Browder star was shining even brighter. Off to Russia to join Fallen Angel Browder was his most ardent disciple, a shy, little-known, well-heeled U.S. businessman named Abraham A. Heller, who was also the longtime financial angel of U.S. radicals...
...Nationalists were winning China's Civil War. Prospects of Government control of all Manchuria (the sine qua non of a strong, independent China) were brighter last week than at any time since liberation. Yet the news from China was bad-appallingly bad. China was hurtling into economic disaster and political anarchy. Its causes: 1) Communist rebellion; 2) failure of the U.S. to send enough prompt aid; 3) the corrupt inefficiency of the National Government. Last week TIME Correspondent William Gray took a long, hard look at China. His report...
Many Happy Returns. Broadway had been the brighter for revivals. The newly organized Theatre, Inc. (which played host to the Old Vic) had started Shaw's Pygmalion on its longest run; and Katharine Cornell had for the fourth time shined up Shaw's Candida. There was a double scoop of Shakespeare, too: Maurice Evans' brisk G.I. Hamlet and an agreeable Winter's Tale...
Thompson recommends: 1) "focal walls"-catching pupil attention by painting the facing wall a darker or lighter value than the side walls; 2) "glare minimization"-equalizing lights and shadows by painting window walls in brighter colors than the opposite walls; 3) "correct room orientation"-cool colors (blue and green) for rooms with west or south exposures; warm colors (red, orange, yellow) for those with east or north exposures...
With the same thoroughness it applied to its wartime job of training men to fight during the crucial years immediately following Pearl Harbor, the University planned ahead for the brighter days which would come, when it would help prepare veterans to assume their places once again in a civilian would...