Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even, it may be, pin sad pennants to their walls. Yet, in the next year, unlike the freshmen at Harvard, the freshmen at the University of Wisconsin, or most other freshmen in the U. S., something might happen to these freshmen that would change their minds. Reading about the bright city on whose finest temple an owl perched, like a symbol of tragic and sagacious hunger, they might, in some strange way, grow to know something more about Milwaukee or St. Paul. They would perhaps laugh at Aristophanes instead of shouting his silliest lines to a football team; Sophocles, Euripides...
...their offensive and defensive powers. French came to Harvard with the reputation of having been one of the best ball carriers in the school boy ranks as the leader of a strong Worcester eleven. He captained his first year team and stood out as one of the bright lights in a rather dull season. In his Sophomore year he gained prominence and a high rating by a brilliant 47-yard dash through the entire Dartmouth team in the last minute of play to snatch what seemed certain victory from the grasp of the invaders. Since that time French has been...
Death lurks on bright Italian highways and in dingy catacombs; political assassins and oil intrigues are tracked down...
...Came a bright September evening and the Warrior sprang from the defense into militant campaigning. In a new brown derby, with Mrs. Smith on his arm, he boarded an elaborate eleven-car special train at Albany. As it sped westward, a big red bull's-eye sign on the back platform announced: "Smith-Robinson Special−the Victory Ticket...
...suburban back yards of West Newton, Mass. It is a hard course, harder than it was nine years ago for the National Open. In the qualifying rounds, no one broke 70 and 157 was good enough to get into the playoffs. George Voigt. playing in a green sweater and bright green stockings, slouched around the course last week with a cheerful, sarcastic expression and won the medal with...