Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colleagues, pupils, and friends of John Strong Perry Tatlock, of the Class of 1896, will regret to learn of his resignation from the Faculty of the University. As Chairman of the English department, professor, and author, with a distinguished career behind him and a bright future ahead, he has served Harvard faithfully and well for four years. The Faculty of the University in general, the English Department in particular, can ill afford the departure of so eminent a scholar and educator. While deploring Harvard's unfortunate loss, the University of California must be congratulated on having acquired Professor Tatlock...
...bright places that will know them no more, friends of the 200 novices declared soberly that their tortured haste to do penance showed "the deep-founded desire for peace among the German people...
...moment deep in thought, as the New York train pulled in at Northampton, Mass., station. Had he remembered to pack: 1) his purple socks? 2) his lemon-yellow shoes? 3) elegant ties, in hues and number sufficient? And had he packed too, in his mind, plenty of his bright, daring, fetching, original phrases, enough to give the solemn old boys a jolt...
Married. Catherina Petronella Smuts, daughter of famed General Jan Christiaan Smuts, onetime Premier of the Union of South Africa and a founder of the League of Nations; and William Bancroft Clark, great grandson of the late famed orator John Bright, of Street, Somersetshire; in Irene, Transvaal, South Africa...
...will be 3,500 feet, its weight 90,000 tons, its cost $60,000,000. Like mechanistic titans, its two towers will stand 635 feet above the river.* Last week they had risen more than 450 feet, were visible for miles around. They shone with the preliminary coat of bright red paint which is applied to most steel structures.† An artist named McClelland Barclay saw the glowing towers of the Hudson bridge. He was inspired. "The new bridge," said he to a friendly newsman, "is the most gorgeously beautiful sight that can be found in New York...