Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brightest spot in the steel picture is motor-making Detroit. Thence has come the bulk of the demand that more than tripled steel operations in the last three months.† Makers of automobile steel like National Steel (only major unit to pay dividends throughout the Depression) have come nearest to feasting. In the Detroit district steel operations have surged up to nearly 80% of capacity...
...Carotte, who had come to her late in life and unwanted, widening the breach between her and her silent husband. The child was thin, big-eyed, hopelessly sensitive. The ecstasies of childhood, as well as its cruel injustices, its disappointments and aching loneliness, seized him with unusual violence. Brightest moment in Poil de Carotte's summer vacation from boarding school comes when he goes to visit his uncle, who lets him swim in a cold brook and then leads him and his little cousin, wreaths of weeds in their hair, in a wild dance to the music...
Felix Frankfurter, Vienna-born Jew whose name shines brightest in the most famed law school of the U. S., had written a law. The President had signed it. And last week every firm of corporation lawyers in the land, including nearly all the cleverest pupils of Harvard's Professor Frankfurter, sidetracked most of their other business to find a way to finance U. S. industry without disrupting the existing financial system. They could not; their professor had outsmarted them ("with diabolical brilliance''); and some-were vexed...
...Brightest bit of testimony came from Hearst's star witness, the egg-throwing Mrs. Ward. Under cross-examination by Lawyer John William Guider she admitted referring to Griffith as "lacto bacillus acidopholus-because he would sour the milk of human kindness"; and as a "dirty rotten turtle egg" because someone had told her that was the Chinese expression of supreme contempt...
MARY LINCOLN-Carl Sandburg & Paul M. Angle-Ear court, Brace ($3). In Chicago's big pan. 15 years ago. one of the brightest literary flashes was Poet Carl Sandburg. His precepts (such as his famed definition of poetry as "the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits") were taken as seriously as his examples. A later day will probably rate his biological work on the Lincolns as his most considerable performance. In Mary Lincoln's 159 pages he telescopes the life of Lincoln's termagant wife as a little companion book to his 604 pages...