Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last year, Yale's ten brightest Seniors sat in Connecticut Hall scribbling answers to a Harvard English examination. They could smoke, but honor bound them not to speak, peer or signal. At the same time Harvard's "ten brightest" took the same examination under like conditions in Cambridge. The Harvard men made the highest marks and thereby won a "brain contest" originated and financed-with a foundation of $125,000-by Mrs. William Lowell Putnam, sister of Harvard's President. The victors' spoils were $5,000 worth of books (TIME...
...carol "the brightest hour must end" and the hunters par excellence, the glory of their age must leave their royal master. Sportsmen sigh, men of fashion are beginning to attend automobile shows and shop girls sob. Everywhere are heard encomiums tinctured with the sorrow of seeing the brilliance of the present fading into the obscurity of the past. Great metropolitan newspapers weep by the column for the glory that once shone on these princely steeds. The world is mourning and grimly faces the dark future...
...parental approval unequalled even by the palmy first grade days when Mamma beamed her joy over the coveted "Ex" in deportment: No matter how gray the skies may hang over such courses as Philosophy A or Evolution 6, the mediocre but conscientious Tufts student can now know that the brightest of silver linings beams out from the old report card with an A in Conventional Religion 1. It is better perhaps not to consider the fate of the always possible naughty boy who by a miscalculation or the failure of the alarm clock rates the abhorred FF. Shunned...
...brightness and the period of variation of eighty-five of the variables discovered by her has enabled Dr. Shapley to locate more accurately the center or nucleus of our Galactic universe, 50,000 light years away. This center of our universe is in the Sagittarius-Scorpio region, the brightest part of the Milky Way, which is visible here in the summer sky but too low in the south to be seen in all its glory. In Arequipa, Peru, the region is overhead and is truly a remarkable sight in that transparent atmosphere...
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, contributory star in the Coolidge foreign policy, arrived by plane in Mexico City to be house guest of U. S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow, brightest star in the Coolidge foreign policy. In the Morrow home is a talented daughter, Anne, 22. Mexico City newspapers, putting two and two together, made one. They carried stories saying that Anne Morrow and Col. Lindbergh would soon be married in Mexico City. The stories were denied and cabled throughout...