Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Motors was clearly on the way to its place in such a mass-production situation. Its Chevrolet car, brightest star in a banner year, issuing from the factories at the rate of one every twelve seconds of the working year,* has sold in numbers 40% greater than last year. Indications were that Chevrolet would be the largest singly advertised product in the U. S. next year...
...much the quest that lured him as the necessity for a quest that drove him. He had just learned of his irregular birth and, to cap that, of his father's guilty love with Guinevere-wIth Guinevere, embodiment of all perfections, inculcatrix of his brightest ideals, his spiritual mother and above all, King Arthur's wife! Galahad rode oft, snorting, but not without a lecture from Arthur himself upon the presumptuous folly of children judging their parents. Galahad not only vexed Lance lot but naturally embarrassed him greatly in the early days, before Guinevere's first blind...
...Harvard squad with the brightest prospect in years ahead of it for this season neither exceeded nor fell below expectations in its first appearance. The passing was far below the standard to be looked for in mid-season and the long range shooting inaccurate. The play of three of last year's championship Freshman skaters, Tudor, Crosby, and Stanley gave the Crimson supporters added cause to hope for a winning sextet. Zarakov, a flashy wing of two years' experience, also played a fast game. He was third substitute in the first period, was sent in second in the following session...
Moeser, one of the shiftiest. Tiger ends of recent years, has played at end on the university team for the past two years, and was one of the brightest luminaries on his Freshman eleven two years...
...overproduction". More capital is invested, more men are employed in coal mining than can possibly be supported on its profits. And in this age of specialization, the transfer of either capital or labor to another occupation requires time and initiative precluding the possibility of a quick readjustment Quite the brightest spot in the whole situation is the unobtrusive announcement that the British birthrate has dropped toward the French level. If continued, this decline offers automatic insurance against similar troubles recurring in the next generation. But in the present must come the inevitable sacrifice accompanying a return to normal conditions...