Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From their star-counts, involving an extremely difficult enumeration of a mass of tiny specks on a photographic place, the Harvard astronomers estimate that there are about 10,000 objects in the cluster between the brightest stars, about 18th magnitude, and the dimmest that have yet been counted, about 19.5 magnitude. How many stars there are fainter than this has not yet been estimated...
...conflict between the Negro's instinct for self-preservation and an impersonal, unpredictable lynch machine. The sadistic, melodramatic physical details of his lynchings occur within an almost off-stage irrelevance. Their reality is the "white fog" of lynch terror which hangs over the Negro community, impenetrable to the brightest Southern sunlight. It is this central psychological core of Negro life in the Deep South, communicated in clear, unemotional prose, which gives Wright's stories their intensity, and a kind of impersonal eloquence in voicing the tragedy of his people...
Last week the Progressive Education Association held its 20th annual convention in Manhattan, discussed everything from the mischievousness of babies to New York's forthcoming World's Fair. Brightest remarks heard by the 2,500 conventiongoers...
...means "Bird" in Albanian and King Zog I met his fiancée in his brightest gold-lace plumage. Apart from the facts that many a prominent Albanian family has sworn a blood feud against King Zog, that he has almost ruined his throat by oversmoking, until at one time he could talk only in guttural wheezes, His Majesty is a highly eligible bachelor...
Difficult to pigeonhole as a musician, Enesco is equally difficult to pigeonhole in the various jobs at which he works. In spite of an absorbing interest in contemporary modernistic scores, he shines brightest as a conductor of romantic German symphonies. As a composer he cannot be identified with any school. "People have been puzzled and annoyed," said good-natured, courtly Enesco in an interview, ''because they have been unable to catalog and classify me in the usual way. They could not decide exactly what type of music mine was. It was not French, after the manner of Debussy...