Word: brighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italian attack was in fact no feint, but the British could take no chances. The Salonika campaign in 1915-18 required 157,000 men, and Britain now could spare nowhere near that many. Large-scale land action was out. So far as naval action went the prospects were brighter. If the British could consolidate themselves on the Greek islands they had a much better chance of staying in the eastern Mediterranean. If they were cagey, they might even draw the Italian Fleet into the long desired open battle. Britain could also afford some air assistance. British planes were said...
...Ormond concluded that a dull child may be "every bit as imaginative" as a brighter one, has certain advantages as a poet: 1) because he has read less, his poetry is innocent of cliches; 2) because his reactions are more primitive ("He is more apt to be a jitterbug"), his poetry has rhythm...
...Department of Commerce's monthly survey of orders and inventories of 700-800 manufacturers (who probably manage their inventories better than business as a whole). June orders for this group rose 13% over May, and in spite of the rise in production their inventories fell 0.3%. A still brighter shade tinted the National Industrial Conference Board's monthly report from about 500 (also unrepresentatively prosperous) manufacturers: June orders were 17% above the average for 1936, while shipments rose only 11%. At the same time, it seemed that manufacturers were not passing on inventories to wholesalers & retailers, for retail...
Everybody knows that pickaninnies can be smart as paint, but many a white doubts the innate intelligence of Negroes. A Northwestern University professor, Paul Witty, assisted by Dr. Martin Jenkins, picked out the brighter children among 8,400 Negroes in the third to eighth grades of seven Chicago public schools, gave them intelligence tests. Their findings, announced last week...
...immigrant, Artist Segall etched with telling strokes the crowded steerage of his transatlantic liner, the lonely sea beyond. Brighter, more cheerful are his water colors of laborers taking siestas, cows looking over a fence. With his attractive Brazilian wife and two sons, Artist Segall lives in big, bustling Sao Paulo. But he often goes back country to paint. Most appealing canvas in the show came from one such trip: Negro Mother, an almond-eyed, woolly-haired girl holding up her café-au-lait infant...