Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flower at first, but bruised and beaten by a mocking Success back into a wiser contentment. Critics found it pleasant, a little sentimental. They commended Conductor Willem Mengelberg for introducing it, and for giving Bloch's Israel Symphony, that strong, honest portrayal of the suffering of the Jews, bright with savagery, sensual, despairing...
...Mars, though eight million miles nearer Earth than last week, was more visible from Earth's southern hemisphere. There are no major telescopes in the southern hemisphere. With hollow clankings of their metallic optic muscles, the great, unblinking eyes slowly scoured the heavens, coming to focus on a bright disc, 1/76th the size of Earth's full moon at its zenith...
...selection telephone girls are a fair cross section of America's bright young womanhood. American young womanhood by and large is made of pretty good stuff. Beyond that from her first tour at the switchboard the telephone girl finds herself gripped by a great tradition. The good name of a great public service is hers to guard and keep. When has she failed...
Nearer to men than it had come for two years, but seven million miles less near than it had come two years ago, came Mars. Faintly reddish in tinge, it rose to the zenith, a bright disc 76 times smaller (optically) than Earth's full moon, giving U. S. astronomers a far better view than they had in 1924, when Mars hung low on the horizon. Being the only planet near enough for men to study with their telescopes, Mars has for centuries excited speculation as to whether or not it is inhabited, speculation which had lately given...
Stewart a guard and Wetmore at quarterback were the bright starts of the first year team, while the entire Holy Cross line played a sterling defensive game...