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Word: brightest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong case could be made for a larger increase even now"--for another term or two. In that event we hope the Department of Buildings and Grounds will get out its brushes and cover the walls and roof of University Hall with a well-earned coat of the brightest spring green...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Term of the Season | 2/1/1956 | See Source »

Sister, farewell, and remember that modesty, as it makes the most homely virgin amiable and charming, so the want of it renders the most perfect beauty disagreeable and odious. But when that brightest of female virtues shines among other perfections of body and mind in the same person, it makes the woman more lovely than an angel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: FROM BEN'S LETTERS | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

Most of Broadway's brightest names turned out in regiment strength at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to hail Theater Grandame Helen Hayes, 55, on the soth anniversary of her first stage appearance. In the grand finale, while Actress Hayes listened with proud Victorian regality, everybody on stage serenaded her with an affectionate rendering of The Way You Look Tonight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 9, 1956 | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

...Choir have one thing in common during their U.S. tours: in the program booklets or in ads appears a small, well-fed cherub who seems to be doodling with a long quill. This is the trademark of Angel Records, only two years old and one of the brightest, most enterprising record companies in the U.S. today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Angel at Two | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...course of an hour, a custom which would not be out of place in Levin's courses. But Levin is still only at the mid-point of his career. Influenced by some of the greatest teachers in the Harvard tradition, a strong influence himself on some of the brightest students exposed to that tradition, he has only begun to make his contribution. It is as impressive a beginning, though as many men achieve in a lifetime...

Author: By James F. Gilligan, | Title: Prodigious Prodigy | 11/26/1955 | See Source »

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