Word: brighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young man was knifed to the heart in Harlem one night last week. Lightning had been flashing through the hot city for hours, brighter & brighter, and about the time they got the young man to Sydenham Hospital the thunder crashed and the rain came down. They called Acting Chief Surgeon Dr. Edward Finestone in from Far Rockaway, 24 miles out on Long Island. Dr. Finestone, driving in fast through the storm, had a bad skid and a slight crackup, but he got to the hospital...
...their newspapers Aussies read of the brighter side. A correspondent who got a look at the movies taken of the battle by the Army Air Forces reported that of 22 Jap ships knocked out by U.S. and Australian bombers, 18 were sunk, including two carriers, two cruisers, nine destroyers...
When NBC's Blue Network was divorced from the Red, the Blue retained custody of one of radio's brighter offspring - the Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street. Like many a bright village charmer who strangely never wed, the Basin Street program (Blue, Wed. 9 p.m. EWT) has never been seriously wooed by a sponsor with honorable intentions. Last week, for example, the Blue turned down a bid for it from Sal Hepatica, which wanted it as a summer substitute for Eddie Cantor, which would merely have involved the Blue's giving the show...
From the point of view of the jazz devotee, prospects are ever brighter as the spring advances, and for anyone who will poke around a little there will be much of interest to be seen and heard. In the first place, one or two of the forthcoming college dances are offering music that should be fairly satisfying to the discerning listener, while serving as an appropriate background to the festivities. There is, for instance, in the offing, Andy Kirk, who has an experienced colored band that can even perform current popular favorites pleasantly, although its chief accomplishments...
...Income Tax, it was also suggested, might be responsible for the sharp fall in purchases, and might have discouraged many would-be investors. A brighter prospect was revealed by one bank which handles undergraduate accounts extensively and which said that some students have a fixed amount of bonds purchased every month out of their checking account, and some of these purchases, it was said, have almost reached the limit on yearly sales to one person...