Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inventor Thomas Alva Edison having abandoned his annual intelligence tests for high school graduates,* the Central Press Association-aided by Instructor Sabina Hart Connolly of Yale's Department of Education-undertook last month to select the nation's six brightest boys. Before being sent on a trip to Italy last week, the boys were received at a Manhattan banquet by Senator Royal Samuel Copeland of New York. To see how smart they were, Senator Copeland began popping questions. "Who is Adolf Hitler?" the Senator asked Prizewinner David Englander of Brooklyn...
...months ago the rate of steel operations declined steadily week after week until last fortnight, when it stayed at the same level (31%) as the week before. Last week a slight rise, to 33%, was registered, somewhat to the surprise of the statisticians. For tin plate output, long the brightest spot in the steel picture, declined last week: three more blast furnaces (two at Birmingham and one at Chicago) were blown out; the summer decline in automotive steel buying had set in strongly.† Last week's rise, slight as it was, in the face of all these unfavorable...
Sweetly reasonably John Henry Whitley who as "Mr. Speaker" used to soothe irate members of the House of Commons into sitting down (see col. 1) turned up again last week like the brightest of pennies...
...ophthalmologic inexactness doubtless lies in the nature of the human crowd. Two generations ago the medical crowd herded toward contagious diseases. A generation ago the crowd swerved toward tuberculosis. Currently there are three bright foci of attention-cancer, heart disease, pneumonia. Cancer, through its experts, has made itself the brightest, to the vexation of the heart men, who are impatiently waiting for a cancer cure or a change of public attention. Waiting hopefully in the offing are specialties, as that of the eye. The Medical Center Eye Institute will be an important lighthouse to the medical crowd...
...business-getting partner in the defunct brokerage house of Woody & Co. was last week sentenced to not less than three nor more than ten years in prison for grand larceny. He used to say he had $4,000,000 before he was 30, used to call himself "the brightest young man in Wall Street...