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...brighter in the thanks again to Blodgett. Blodgett has smooth form and good and should win most of his Backing him up will be Hank who has improved a lot since . Hatch took a second and on the 220 low and 120 high at Army...
...moon," he reported. "The sun in outer space is tens of times brighter than here on earth. The stars are easily visible. They are bright and distinct. The entire picture of the firmament has much more contrast than when seen from the earth." The sunlit side of the earth, he said, was quite plain, and he could easily see the shores of continents, islands, big rivers, folds in the terrain, large bodies of water. When passing over the Soviet Union, he spotted the great squares of collective farms. He could even tell cultivated land from pasture...
...manhole cover lifts hesitantly. Not a soul in sight. The cover slides back and out of the hole pops-tickety-snit! an upper-class Englishman in a dinner jacket. Casually, he shoots his cuffs, slides into his Rolls and glides into this British comedy of misdemeanors-one of the brighter bubbles on the having-wonderful-crime wave (Ocean's 11, Big Deal on Madonna Street, Make Mine Mink, Two-Way Stretch} that has recently flooded the movie markets with felonious...
...department of linguistics. No doubt people who study languages understand foreign cultures better, but that might just be because people interested in foreign cultures study languages. The whole argument begins to sound like a suggestion that language should be studied because people who took a language in college are brighter than those who didn't go to college...
...geriatric observations. "There must be a gang such as ours somewhere today," said Jane Grant. "But, of course, times have changed. For one thing, the writers nowadays all marry cuties. In our day, writers were sometimes drawn to more intellectual girls." And the girls (at least in retrospect) were brighter, such as the time, someone remembered, that Nonresident Member Noel Coward looked across the table at Edna Ferber and said sweetly, "You almost look like a man.'' Said Edna Ferber...