Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening of Oct. 29, 1919 one of Tammany's brightest young men made a speech in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan. The subject of the speech was Publisher William Randolph Hearst, who at that time packed so much punch in New York City politics that Tammany had kowtowed to him for over 16 years. The speaker was a young Governor named Alfred Emanuel Smith, serving his first term. Referring to Publisher Hearst, Governor Smith began: "I know he has not got a drop of good, clean, pure red blood in his whole body. And I know the color of his liver...
...explaining to her followers that the Gospel is against life insurance, labor unions, lodges, the cinema, bobbed hair, stylish garb and other extravagances. Thriving on tithes plus free-will offerings at meetings, the Apostolic Faith now has $500,000 worth of property, a printing plant, a Live Gospel Mission ("Brightest Spot in Portland"), others in Norway, Sweden, South Africa and Bowling Green, Ky. Treasurer of the Faith is a man called Paulson, who also serves as mechanic for eight Apostolic automobiles. Sailors in Portland Harbor are evangelized from an Apostolic yacht...
...National Gallery and Surveyor of the King's Pictures. The King's collection is far & away the biggest and finest collection of Leonardo drawings now known to man. In his first volume of notes, Cataloger Clark makes it tell much of great Leonardo, one of the brightest, blandest and most mysterious men who ever lived. The second volume is given over to 614 Leonardo drawings...
...Obstacle to confirmation was that another and unrelated spectrum shift existed (the Doppler effect), due to the motion of the star away from or toward the observer. Last week the same Dr. Trumpler announced that he had solved the difficulty by measuring the redshift of nine "O" stars (hottest, brightest, heaviest in the sky) moving along in clusters with other stars. The redshift of these nine showed a marked excess over that of their companions which could not be due to dissimilar motion, must therefore be due to the restraining effect of their powerful gravitational fields on their radiated light...
...Last December an almost unknown star on the fringe of the constellation Hercules, far below the range of naked-eye visibility, was observed in the midst of a flaring explosion which in nine days increased the intensity of its radiation 200,000 times and placed it among the twelve brightest stars in the sky (TIME Dec 31). Only last fortnight did Nova Herculis 1934, on the downgrade to its onetime obscurity, become again too dim to be seen without a telescope. Astronomers do not know why occasional stars blow up, venture only the vaguest guesses. But in recent years...