Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...money developing Peruvian oil reserves, and aided the Santa Valley project to exploit zinc and nearby Cañón del Pato water power to create a new electrolytic zinc industry. With the formation of a sturdy new Cabinet last week, prospects for Pawley's efforts looked the brightest since he arrived...
...Conover models scored an average Otis I.Q. of 109.2-just as high as 2,500 college students given the same test. Brightest of all was Kit Carson, 20, (real name: Patricia Louise Carlson) who spent one year at the University of Minnesota. Height: 5 ft. 7½ in.; weight: 120 Ibs.; I.Q.: 125. Telephone number: Murray Hill...
...brightest star of Victor's sky is the Met's Jugoslav-born soprano Zinka Mi-lanov. Her Pace, pace, mio Dio from La Forza del Destine and Voi lo sapete from Cavalleria Rusticana, helped by modern engineering, are improvements over most of the collectors' classics from the Golden Age. She also teams with the Met's Margaret Harshaw in a duet from Norma, and with Jan Peerce in the Miserere from // Trovatore. Others: Kerstin Thorborg, Blanche Thebom, Eleanor Steber, Alexander Kipnis...
...when mountainous Edward Fretwell Prichard Jr. plumped himself down in Washington, even the New Dealers had never seen his like. He weighed 300 Ibs., stood six feet two; he was all of 24, he had been sent to Europe by Central Press as one of America's six brightest lads, had been graduated from Princeton with highest honors, from Harvard Law School cum laude. As a law clerk to his friend Justice Frankfurter, he squeezed himself into a chair, ran a fat hand through his dark wavy hair, and cocked an intelligent and cocky...
...went to high school together long before the incident at the Marco Polo bridge. He was one of the brightest kids I ever knew, and so completely American that his almond-shaped eyes were almost forgotten. I say "almost" because I remember very well one particular incident that might have had some effect on Ken's future...