Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Could a political spectrograph of the U. S. be made to help the man-in-the-street classify his more prominent fellow citizens as to political color, from the "true Blue" of J. P. Morgan to the bright "Red" of the late Sacco & Vanzetti...
Last week this scene was replayed in the Customs Court of Appeals in Manhattan. Another one of Brancusi's birds, a bright, sinuous piece of brass pipe, tapering at the ends in a not perfectly symmetrical curve, has been shipped from Paris to Edward Steichen, Manhattan photographer and artist. Denied duty-free admission as a work of art, it had been subjected to a tax of $229.35, more than a third of what Purchaser Steichen had paid for it. Appealing the decision, Purchaser Steichen appeared in court accompanied by experts who would support his claim that the bright enigma...
...four students (known as the "Big Four"), suspended 56 for the rest of the academic year, and placed about 150 on probation. They were the most recalcitrant of the 400 young men & women who the week before had quit the institute when lights in the cinema hall were kept bright to discourage improper practices. (TIME...
...WILLIAMS Salmon, Henry, g. g., Willmot Stollmeyer, l.f.b. r.f.b., Sherman Barnes, r.f.b. l.f.b., Davis Carr, Blackburn, l.f.b. r.h.b., Barhite Rudd, Kerness, c.h.b. c.h.b., Strong Ryan, Rudd, r.h.b. l.h.b., Neilson Kerness, Park, Langdon, c. c., Phelps Haskell, Salmon, l.o.f. r.o.f., Delano Danielian, Haskell, l.i.f. r.i.f., Christie Keefe, Parks, r.i.f. l.i.f., Bright Driggs, r.o.f. l.o.f., Smith...
...means let us do away with the simplicity of the present cheer--which is so simple that spontaneity is said to creep into it at times--a rare presence in any organized cheer. Let us instead drill a chorus of bright-clothed acrobats to thrill visitors to Cambridge with antic contortions on the side lines. For the present cheer, with the pounding weight of lung-power behind it, with its full energy directed to the field and to the game there being played,--let us substitute an ingenious concoction of shrieks, whistles, walls, and hoarse laughter, the latter evincing that...