Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consoling part of the trip, however is the fact that the victories were both clean-cut triumphs while the defeats all were by close scores, two by one run margins and two by two run margins. The brightest day of the trip was Wednesday when an 8 to 2 victory over the Quantico Marines avenged a grudge of two years standing. That was also the first win of the season since before that the Pioneers of Boston University had captured the opener 5 to 3 and Devens had been shaded in a pitching duel by Wallace of William and Mary...
Next July, when he takes office, President Compton will have charge of 487 teachers, 2,868 undergraduates, and the nation's "Brightest" and "Second Brightest" boys?Wilber Brotherton Huston and Charles H. Brunissen, winners in last summer's Edison examinations (TIME...
Through the wildly grotesque back-ground of this superficially grotesque story revolve the figures of: Mrs. Melrose Ape and her troupe of traveling angels. Chastity, Divine Discontent, etc.; the sinister ubiquitous, omniscient Father Rothschild, the Honorable Walter Outrage, "last week's Prime Minister," Agatha Runcible, loudest if not brightest of the Bright Young People, Lottie Crump, proprietress of the crazy London hotel (it really exists) where everyone drinks champagne from dawn to dusk, where bills are infrequent, irregular, but inescapable...
John Henry Cardinal Newman, onetime hope of the Anglicans, then convert to Roman Catholicism, finally acknowledged prince of his adopted church, author of the "immortal" Apologia pro vita sua, is now little more than a dusty document, even, at Oxford University where his fame was brightest. Author May, sympathetic archivist, here takes out the dossier and with reverent breath blows off some of the dust...
Undoubtedly there may be historians who will find the name of Frank Billings Kellogg brightest in 1929, for it was the year in which 57 nations signed the world-peace treaty with his name on it. But researchers and analysts could show that Mr. Kellogg did not originate the outlawing-war idea ; that a comparatively obscure lay figure named Salmon Oliver Levinson, Chicago lawyer, was invited to the White House the day the signatures were affixed in recognition of certain conversations he had had years prior with Senator Borah of Idaho and others...