Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nantucket has always been a pretty good place to find sea shells; up to 1945 professional scientists had counted 46 different species of Mollusca on the island and in its waters. That was about the time Dwight Taylor of Pasadena, now a bright-eyed, serious 17-year-old, began his collection. Dwight kept picking up sea shells until he had picked up 120 species of them, and enough mollusk lore to write a dozen-page scientific treatise: "A Malacological Survey of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts...
Last week, largely because of his treatise, Dwight Taylor was in Washington, D.C.-one of 40 fledgling scientists chosen from high schools all over the U.S. in the Westinghouse Electric Corp.'s seven-year-old annual "Science Talent Search." To begin with, there had been 16,218 bright young juniors like Dwight, but successive screenings and aptitude tests soon cut the number down to 2,842, then to the 40 who got the trip to the capital...
...bright new "C" entry on Plympton Street, the rooms are as modern as any in the University. In the older parts of the House, Adams boasts the University's largest suites and most so its few bathtubs. Grouped on the uptown side of Mt. Auburn Street between the CRIMSON office and the Lampoon edifice, all the entries of Adams are only a minute from the Yard, a true boon for late risers...
...first, time since the war, House contracts will be for a full year instead of a term. This will make it harder to switch rooms or roommates in February, though not impossible. The change was bright about by the drop in February graduation...
...with a shotgun. Aaron's girl was Nadine, a Catholic in the town of Adams, "a cotton-mill hand by day, but by evening a plump, wriggling, rolling, rejoicing, inviting, shoulder-shaking, cooing, laughing, black-eyed, black-haired, black-tempered young woman, who loved all that was bright and shoddy and loud, and loved all males...