Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...varying thicknesses. Observations by Dr. William Alexander Calder disclosed that in a year the seventh Pleiad, now called Pleïone, had diminished by one-sixth of a magnitude in brightness. It cannot have been decreasing for very long at this rate, otherwise it would have been the brightest star in the sky less than a half century ago. But the fact of its variability does support the legend that Pleïone was once a conspicuous member of the Seven Sisters...
...gloomy ending to what had appeared one of the brightest seasons; for Harvard in its early races twice beat Tech and once Columbia. At the Eight-Sided Regatta at Princeton a week ago the first disappointment came as Tech gained revenge on Harvard, winning by a narrow margin after they had an easy first heat and the Crimson had been forced to go all out against Yale in their heat...
...last week was James ("Jimmy") Cagney, No. 1 portrayer of cinema toughs. The sympathy for the underdog which Actor Cagney developed in his youth on Manhattan's East Side was given point and direction by the late, crusading Lincoln Steffens. Long famed as one of Hollywood's brightest Pinks, Jimmy Cagney's public deeds have been nothing more daring than an occasional contribution to strikers and active leadership in the Screen Actors' Guild. But last week he and such other notably social-conscious cinemactors as Fredric March, Chester Morris, Franchot Tone, Joan Crawford, Jean Muir...
...lustre to one of the brightest chairs in the University, it is Robert Hillyer, just appointed Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. Since 1771 this title has been borne by some of Harvard's greatest teachers as a worthy memorial to the character of its founder, Nicholas Boylston, John Quincy Adams filled the position, and in later days Dean Briggs and Charles Townsend Copeland...
...Nazareth?" and like Pontius Pilate they do not stay for an answer to their question. The reputation of Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) has suffered as a result of this cultural parochialism. Pushkin occupies a place in Russian literature similar to that of Shakspere in English, yet not even the brightest English-speaking schoolboys know anything about him. Difficulties of language are an obvious barrier to the understanding of Pushkin, but those barriers will certainly have to be surmounted, now that the Soviet Union is a world-power of pivotal importance, with cultural achievements within the short period of twenty years...