Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true that the grapplers showed some possibilities against Brown on Saturday night, but it is admitted that they will have to show much more promise if they are to keep their season's record unblemished. One of the brightest stars in the Crimson sky is another member of the Ames family. Continuing the record of no defeats in dual competition which was established by Dick Ames, his brother Harry won a well-deserved fall in the Freshman 145-pound class. Strong and powerful, the younger Ames is expected to follow in the footsteps of his big brother...
...about 1,500 years ago. It was throwing off two shells of tremendously hot gas at 1,000,000 m.p.h. By last week it had jumped 13 magnitudes to the first, acquired a name, Nova Herculis 1934. Its radiation had increased 200,000 times; it was among the twelve brightest stars in the sky. Directors Vesto Melvin Slipher of Lowell Ob servatory (Flagstaff, Ariz.) and Harlow Shapley of Harvard Observatory obtained remarkable spectra, said the star might be the most important stellar outburst ever witnessed...
That he could never be, but James Thurber quickly established himself as one of the ablest, easily the maddest member of the neurotic crew that staffs the brightest weekly in the U. S. For two years no one but his friend and fellow editor, Elwyn Brooks ("Andy") White, could see anv merit in the thousands of drawings with which Thurber covered all the loose stationery in The New Yorker office. Artist Thurber may not be a second Picasso but he is indubitably one of the most prolific telephone booth moral ists in the world...
...DeMille's daughter she grew up in his big house on DeMille Road, a real estate development owned by him on a hill overlooking Hollywood. She took the usual scholastic courses that interest girls with money in expensive private schools, dancing, amateur dramatics, etc. She was the brightest girl in every school she went to, including a Los Angeles business college in which she studied stenography and shorthand so as to have a foundation for other professions in case she was a failure in the film business. She studied cutting and carried script for her father. Lately...
Star light, Star bright, All the stars are out tonight The brightest theatrical stars- They're outshining Jupiter, Venus and Mars- All for the cause- All for the cause Not for applause or "Hurrahs!" There's a bright white light in the heavens tonight This is the night of stars...