Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...indebted for the following facts to the investigations of Drs. Bradford and Cutter: Of 113 Harvard students who had rowed in intercollegiate races up to 1870, 10 were killed in the war, and 2 died of diseases contracted in the service. Of the remaining 101, 1 died of Bright's disease, 5 of consumption, 1 of neuralgia, 1 by suicide, 2 by accident, and 1 from an unknown cause. Of the 87 who were living two years ago, 67 reported themselves in good health, and from the rest no definite answer could be obtained...
...Bright is her eye and ruddy her cheek...
...newspapers say, let us now enter. "The interior is sumptuous in its richness. The arched ceiling is frescoed in bright and happy coloring. Silver-plated hooks for clothing are along the sides, and nine improved lamps hang from the ceiling, while as many nickel-plated, portable lamps are distributed - throughout the car. If necessity requires, movable slides in the ceiling can be opened, giving plenty of air to each and every occupant of the car." When the eighteen nickel-plated lamps are all going at once, the top of the car must present the appearance of being upholstered with buttons...
FAIR-HAIRED am I, - a bright, capricious...
...Yard is as deserted as a recitation in Logic. No, some one is awake; there is a light in a window of the fourth story of Weld; how bright it is! Great Heavens...