Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...choice in the selection of his new assignment. General Arnold himself set the key for this personal consideration of the individual which has changed the old Army game of shuffling people like playing cards-face down. Said he: "We took him out of civilian life when his future was brightest . . . when he returns, we want his outlook and his chances for success to be just as brilliant." In the approach and scope of the project, military men see more than a thoughtful scheme for fitting Air Forces men and jobs smoothly together. They see what may be a preview...
...brightest liberal ornaments of the South, the first U.S. state university to open its doors, last week celebrated its 150th anniversary. At Chapel Hill the Tarheels of the University of North Carolina had every reason to congratulate themselves on their sesquicentennial. North Carolina had had to grow in a climate which had often been desolating to the liberal spirit. But the University had grown lustily and had substantially changed the very air in which it breathed...
...Front. His account of the war at sea was the brightest yet: ". . . For the four months which ended Sept. 18 no merchant vessel was sunk by enemy action in the North Atlantic...
...Proudly We Hail (Paramount) enlists three of Paramount's brightest fe-.male stars (Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake) in a heartfelt, but highly fictional, tribute to the Army nurses of Bataan. The three leading ladies are so comely even in coveralls that, despite all the realistic shooting, they spend most of their time fighting a woman...
When Pan American Airways' Atlantic Clipper crashed at Lisbon last February, killing 24 people, one of the brightest reputations in transport aviation crashed with it. Last week the crash report of the Civil Aeronautics Board marked "official" what airmen already knew: the Atlantic's chief pilot, 50-year-old Captain R.O. D. Sullivan, was responsible for the crash...