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Word: brightnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Does anyone seriously believe that a jury can remember all the statements made by witnesses for six weeks? When men as bright as Mr. Williams have to refer to their notes all the time when discussing the case, how are we supposed to remember every word when we have no notes? Today I asked them to let us have a transcript of the evidence so that we could read it, and refresh our recollection of what was said. Did we get it? We did not. It isn't according to practice, or something like that. There is objection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Foreman Conant | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...experience is an able forecast for a tennis season, things look especially bright for the Freshman netmen. B.H. Whitebeck Jr., brother of the Captain of the University team, is a promising candidate. He won the Roys' National Indoor Championship in 1923, the Harvard Interscholastics in 1924, and was captain of the Loomis net team for two years H.H. Lisker is another likely racquet-wielder. He captured the Interscholastic Championship of Rhode Island in 1924 and 1925, and was twice captain of the team which won the Gilden Cup in Providence, Robeson Bailey, winner of the Freshman championship in last fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1929 TENNIS CANDIDATES REPORT TO COWLES TODAY | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

When questioned about the prospects for success in the coming debate, Chapman said: "There is a great deal of good material in the college and if we can whip it into shape, things look decidedly bright...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BIG THREE DEBATE TOPIC IS CHANGED TO PERMIT OF WIT | 3/11/1926 | See Source »

Prospects for next year are unusually bright in view of the fact that only four letter men, Captain Cumings, Pratt, Harding, and Howe will be lost by graduation. In addition to the eight letter men from this year's team who are returning there - will be the undefeated Freshman sextet to draw from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELLISON CHOSEN TO LEAD HOCKEY TEAM | 3/10/1926 | See Source »

...retains the physical characteristics of his British ancestors, who were just as near an Alpine type as a Nordic.* He is mesocephalic (medium-skulled, between "long" and "round" or "short." He is tallest of all the large groups of white men. His hair is medium in color, rarely bright blond in adults, almost never black. His eyes tend to be "medium," that is, light brown rather than dark brown or bright blue. He is sinewy and slender in youth, not rawboned and gangling or fat and pudgy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old American | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

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