Word: brighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of California's President Robert G. Sproul: "The prospects for higher education at the University of California were never brighter. . . . Nor do we expect to be demoralized by the veterans or to demoralize them...
...Dealing Joe Guffey was suddenly not as enthusiastic about the nominations as he had been. Wyoming's Joseph O'Mahoney asked, incredulously, whether the Senate would "vote blindly about so important a matter. . . ." Connecticut's Francis Maloney took another tack: "There may not be any brighter or better men than these. On the other hand, there might...
...been marked by inaction on the part of the boys with their $15 pay raise jingling in their pockets every month. They have already commenced to distinguish themselves in various lines of endeavor; some in the classrooms, under the new Harvard influence in their lives; others in the brighter spots of Boston, under other influences, no doubt; and still others over the local telephone system...
Hodges crossed the path of another man of destiny in 1936, when he was assigned to the Philippines as General Douglas MacArthur's plans and operations officer. On MacArthur's staff was Lieut. Colonel Dwight Eisenhower, rated one of the brightest of the Army's brighter young men. Eisenhower, too, made a note of Hodges as a man who knew how to get things done...
...through the German occupation the U.S. Embassy in Paris was a symbol of hope to Frenchmen. The graceful, cream-tinted building off the Place de la Concorde shone brighter every day. Its gardens behind the high iron railings were always carefully manicured. Every window was clean and glistening. Inside, every inkwell was full, every desk tidy, no pastepot gooey...