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Word: brightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...fully prepared. Although he was in Cambridge but little over a year and a half, he was universally known and was universally liked. The death of any one at twenty-one years of age is always an unusually sad event, but the death of one so bright, so generous, so uniformly good-natured as Allen Post is particularly distressing. His funeral took place in New York on Thursday, 30th December, and was attended by a large number of relatives, friends, and classmates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBITUARY. | 1/14/1876 | See Source »

...seek the pleasures of the bright...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MEET OF THE WINDS. | 12/24/1875 | See Source »

Countless are the ripples bright...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RETROSPECTION. | 11/12/1875 | See Source »

...struck by a bright idea). Well, I believe that the paper hurts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTER-WRITING. | 10/15/1875 | See Source »

...University Crew appeared last summer with one shade of crimson and the Eleven with another; while at Saratoga colors which were worn by the students and their friends, and called crimson, embraced all the different shades of red from bright scarlet to maroon. This diversity of shades was remarked by every one, and in consequence the universal and unanswerable cry was, "What is the true color of Harvard?" After this question had been inflicted upon us a few hundred times we began to look with admiration upon the peculiar advantages derived from a change of magenta to crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/15/1875 | See Source »

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