Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that it has acquired the Literary Digest, does TIME by any chance plan to take over the Digest's one particularly bright feature, cartoons-of-the-week...
...happy, drew cheers next day from song-starved critics. The show is hardly as good as all that though for the marriage of the season's most ethereal stage bride, Producer Wiman has provided a shimmering trousseau reputed to have cost $125,000; several wardrobefuls of beautiful bright clothes, a pile of lacy, hand-embroidered stage sets by Jo Mielziner, plenty of Rodgers silver tunes...
Until 1915 the bright star Alpha Centauri was steadfastly regarded by astronomers as the sun's nearest stellar neighbor...
...young Harvard graduate of the Class of '79 recently commented on the close association of the great professors with their students in the days when there were only two hundred students in each class. Today many of the bright lights of the faculty are cut off from the student body by the exigencies of the lecture system. Not only is the intellectual development of the students left pretty much to the tutors, but in large courses the examination books are corrected very often by assistants who are unknown to and do not know their pupils...
Last week this therapeutic outdoor literature received a notable addition in Ralph Connor's posthumous autobiography. Its 430 pages are about equally divided between bright accounts of the good times Ralph Connor enjoyed, and dull philosophizing about the spiritual value of his good times, both to himself and others. Born in 1860, the son of Scotch settlers in upper Quebec, a crusading preacher (his real name was Charles Gordon), Ralph Connor, became a novelist almost by accident. He wrote a story for a Canadian religious magazine, cut it up into three sections, kept adding chapters until it was long...