Word: brightest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...swoops downward, the moon ship Antares (named for the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius) will travel at a slightly flatter trajectory than in the past, letting Astronauts Shepard and Mitchell keep a steadier fix on their target. Although the landing will still be essentially under computer direction, Shepard will probably take over the vertical controls at an altitude of 300 ft. The actual touchdown, in a flat region between small features called Triplet and Doublet craters, should take place at 4:16 a.m. E.S.T. Friday...
...keeping very close to pure rock performance; but Tommy's pretensions to being conventional opera are even weaker than Superstar's. Despite some capable back-up musicians and a particularly good performance by Ian Gillam as Judas, Superstar mixes rock with pop and produces too much schmaltz. The brightest moment of the whole show is an intentionally schmaltzy one, that comes when a chillingly ironic Herod mock-playfully challenges Jesus in a sleazy ragtime...
...CHASE N. PETERSON '52, dean of Admissions, announces that the incoming class of 1975, "while not the brightest in Harvard history, demonstrate a terrific versatility of talents-from middle linebacker to shortstop." He thanks the Ohio State Republican Club for helping to find "1200 healthy males not currently enrolled in detention centers...
Already, Manning has increased the law faculty by half and attracted some of the country's brightest young legal scholars, including Criminal Law Expert Anthony Amsterdam. He has headed a drive to raise $10.5 million for a new law school, research funds and more professors. Stanford's law students are among the most select in the nation (2,400 applications for 160 first-year places). Activist though they may be, the dean matches them idea for innovative idea. Says one admirer: "Manning assesses student support for an idea and then beats them...
...brightest of the big apes, the chimpanzee may be man's nearest intellectual neighbor. How near? Science has long sought to discover in the intelligent chimp the gift of language, the incomparable skill that distinguishes mankind from all other living things. Until now, that search has been fruitless; the chimp lacks the capacity for speech that is innate in every normal human infant. But in Psychology Today magazine, Psychologist David Premack of the University of California at Santa Barbara demonstrates that the chimpanzee can converse with man in ways other than by the tongue...