Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...association will be entitled to enter the winners and second men in their separate league games upon the payment of the annual dues of $25. Five leagues, representing at least 150 schools, have announced their intention of joining and the prospect of five more coming in is bright...
...acting together and not being united on the same questions. The city is only a large club, so it would seem that the simplicity of its object would ensure success. Yet a city government will not run itself and there is need of continual watchfulness and bright intelligence...
...Harvard Observatory has received despatches from the Lick Observatory in California stating that C. D. Perine on Nov. 17 discovered a comet in the constellation Virgo. The comet has increased steadily in brightness being now of about the fourth magnitude. Being below the equator and travelling southward, it is rather unfavorably situated for observation. No observations have as yet been taken at the Observatory, but from the data at hand, it may be said, speaking roughly, that the comet can be seen a little before sunrise in the constellation Libra, several degrees northwest of the bright reddish star Autares...
...December number of the Cosmopolitan has just appeared. The number is bright and entertaining and several of the articles are of considerable literary value. A special feature of this number is the illustrating, which is unusually fine. The contents are as follows...
...attraction at the Park Theatre for this week, is Hoyt's funniest play, "A Black Sheep," which last season ran three months at that house, and was taken off only because of engagements elsewhere that could not be cancelled. The company is still headed by that bright and clever comedian, Otis Harlan, whose impersonation of Goodrich Mudd, otherwise known as "Hot Stuff," the young man who prefers to remain in Tombstone rather than go to New York and enjoy the fortune bequeathed him, is remembered by play...