Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...palm-house at the Botanic Garden, there is now a large Cycas, or so called Sago palm, in fruit. In the centre of the great cluster of bright green leaves there is a globular mass of reduced leaves of a tawny color, many of them bearing on their edges flat and exposed ovules...
This year the Conference starts with very bright prospects and there is every reason to believe that its success will equal if not surpass that of the past...
...Princeton. The most despondent supporters of Harvard did not expect such a defeat, so complete at every point, and the huge score piled up by Princeton seems almost inexplicable. At the end of the first half with the score fifteen to ten in Harvard's favor, prospects seemed bright for a victory; but after Harvard made a safety in the second half the game was decided, for from that time forward Princeton raised the score in a remarkable manner. At only one point in the game did Princeton lose confidence; after Harvard had made her first lucky touchdown five minutes...
Resolve, That by his death we have been deprived of one whose earnest and conscientious work commanded the respect of all with whom he was associated, and whose early life gave promise of a bright and successful future...
...look, said he, back upon the life of the ancient Venetians and Florentines in the times of their great progress in art we are apt to think of their life as particularly bright; perhaps even more so than our own. But they were greatly influenced by the Greeks and if we examine all art we find it more or less dependent upon the Greeks. The great features of the Greeks were simplicity, truth and beauty. And to this they added the ability to express the inward thought in visible form. We have more or less lost the spirit...