Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hindus observed last week the 5,000th birthday of Krishna, their epic hero, who traditionally composed the Bhagavad-gita?perhaps comparable to Solomon's Song of Songs?and is now exalted as the full incarnation of Vishnu, a God of the Bright Heaven...
Wary of prodigies, critics were specially wary of Master Farjeon because in explaining his career to date his mother mentioned "Mother" Stoner. The latter, a Mrs James B. Stoner, appeared some years ago out of Norfolk, Va., with a militant theory for making geniuses out of bright children and with a precocious daughter, who had learned to typewrite at the age of three, to substantiate the theory. "Mother" Stoner founded "the Natural Education System," dabbled in Esperanto, attacked Mother Goose as "unquestionably evil" and set up an establishment in Tuckahoe, N. Y. It was at "Mother" Stoner's in Tuckahoe...
...they smoke or talk; the Benedictines eat meat sparingly, three days a week for half the year. On the other hand the Carmelites and Dominicans feed themselves as do lay Roman Catholics. These, therefore, were the "controls" for observations on the others. The Ministry of Health, pleased with the bright economy of the investigation, decided last week that there was no difference in the incidence of cancer among flesh-eaters or vegetable eaters. As many of one group died of cancer as of the other...
...cradles in the Grand Central Palace, Manhattan-exhibits of the annual motor boat show. Salesmen at every booth gave away folders in blue and gold, in sea-green and orange, describing in fascinating language the advantages of their model's. Well-dressed people read the literature, studied the bright little boats...
...overtime period also failed to produce any score, and the teams changed sides for the final five minutes of the encounter. Scarcely 30 seconds later Howard was sent off the ice for clipping, and B.U. seemed to have gotten the deciding break. But in Harvard's darkest moment a bright star arose in the form of Scott who, checking Lawless near the Crimson cage, seized the puck, dashed up the right lane and eluding Gibson and Captain Viano, gained the mouth of the B. U. cage. His high shot which found the Terrier net less than an inch from...