Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cross scuttled out, taking with him famed Presbyterian Henry Sloane Coffin, to announce to his friend Charles Seymour that he had been elected the 15th president of Yale. "The news," said suave Mr. Seymour, "was a pleasant surprise." No great surprise to Yalemen, the news crowned two of the brightest careers in U. S. education. Brisk, witty James Rowland Angell has in 15 years transformed the nation's second university spiritually and materially. Quadrupling its endowment (from $25,000,000 to $95,000,000), spending the fortune of Lawyer John W. Sterling (Class of '64) on acres...
...result, the public service of Mr. Landis must be ranked as one of the brightest spots in the New Deal record. He takes to the direction of the Harvard Law School a wealth of training with concrete human problems. He left a professorship of law to perform this important public service. He returns with an experience that cannot fail to influence the course of legal training for a generation to come...
...Nova Aquilae became the brightest star in the night sky, but it started from below the eleventh magnitude. Famed Nova Herculis of 1934 became one of the twelve brightest stars, but it started from the 14th magnitude. If Gamma becomes a nova, starting from the first or second magnitude, it will be brilliantly visible in broad daylight. And imaginative persons have suggested that the outpouring of injurious ultraviolet radiation may be so strong that human beings would have to carry umbrellas coated with lead before venturing under the glare of "Nova Cassiopeiae." Other highlights of the astronomers' convention...
...Scotland, where optimism is unfashionable, able editors were dourly convinced last week that the Press has not seen the last of the non-gossip features of the Edward & Mrs. Simpson story. Its gossip aspects last week were just bursting into brightest bloom...
This year, not the least of Washington's achievements turned out to be the only game it lost, at the outset of its brightest year since 1925. That was to Minnesota, on Andy Uram's pass for a last-minute touchdown, 14-10-7. Coached by James Phelan, who played at Notre Dame from 1915 through 1917, using an attack that stresses finesse more than sheer (and traditional) power, Washington earned its right to play in the Rose Bowl by seven victories in which its opponents scored only one touchdown, and a 14-to-14 tie with Stanford...