Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strong battle leader." But, he added, West Point makes no concessions to its star athletes. An All-America tackle who flunked in mathematics was kicked out last June. General Taylor said that Cadet McWilliams had received a "particularly lucrative offer from a certain quarter." Other Army stars (the brightest: Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis) have had "their summer furloughs marred by visitations and solicitations" at bull-market prices. Concluded the General: "The authorities at the Military Academy view with concern . . . the apparent decay in the amateur spirit of college athletics...
From Victoria to Halifax the tourists-from-the-U.S. business looked better than even the brightest presummer estimates. British Columbia officials guessed that by time things got back to normal it would have picked up 30 million U.S. dollars...
Chile's brightest hopes lie in the half-Socialist, half-RFC Development Corporation, whose projects-a major steel mill, the Spring Hill oilfield, a copper processing plant, a new fishing industry-could in the long run raise the level of production. But the Chilean man in the street looked for action now. He would look to the new President...
...brightest spot in the summer vars according to Coach Samborski is the constant improvement of the team. It doesn't show in the record, but as the season wore on and finally wore out, the team picked up confidence and experience which should aid a lot in next spring's season...
...months the excitement along Broadway had been mounting. At the tail end of a lively but not very lustrous season there loomed one of the brightest theatrical events in years: England's world-famous Old Vic was arriving for six weeks of repertory, with such topnotchers in its cast as Laurence Olivier (TIME, April 8) and Ralph Richardson (TIME, Dec. 31). On the morning last month when the box office first opened, double lines of ticket buyers stretched for blocks; and by the evening last week when the first curtain rose on Henry IV, Part I, the advance sale...