Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About the first thing one sees in New York,--and the last--is a taxi. The swarms of these bright-colored public machines have well-nigh squeezed all private cars from the down-town sections. But the enterprise of New York taxi magnates is not confined to the narrow limits of Manhattan. One of them proposes to speed up London traffic with a shipment of five hundred yellow cabs, and the London press has had no end of fun discussing the impending "yellow peril...
...other explorer had ever been, he travelled without wireless, and for months completely out of touch with civilization. Arctic exploration in those days had not yet acquired the certainty of scientific research; it was adventure, romance, and it carried the assurance of obtaining at least a glimpse into the "bright eyes of danger...
...cablegram from Stromgren, South Africa, received yesterday at the University Observatory, reported that Mr. M. W. Reid of the Royal Observatory of the Cape of Good Hope had discovered on December 1 a comet, five degrees north of the bright star. Fomalhaut in the constellation Aquarius. The cablegram did not state the magnitude of the comet but if it attains any great brilliance it will be observable in Cambridge on clear nights, for the constellation Aquarius is on the meridian, due south, at 6 o'clock in the evening. Professor Harlow Shapley states that further details, including the magnitude...
...everything. This lad, it seems, has been impoverished largely as the result of bad roads. He wins a scholarship by writing an essay on the subject of good roads. Naturally, he comes to Washington to have the President present him with the scholarship. The natural consequence is. the bright young lad returns to his home with a civil engineer's degree and devotes his life to making the country a finer and safer place to ride...
...decline in stock prices were so immediately and emphatically realized, that much attention is now given to his remarks. After predicting higher industrial share prices -a prophecy in part already realized-he last week turned his attention to the railroad stocks. For these, he asserts, there is a bright future in the coming year. In fact, Mr. Livermore believes that the rail-road stockholders would recover much of the $3,000,000,000 lost through declining prices over the past 15 years...