Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Reed has a very bright mind but a very badly equipped mind. When he strays away from his specialty, which is the prosecution of graft, he quickly betrays not only a pathetic ignorance of the facts but, what is worse, a lamentable inability to weight facts when they are presented...
...wanted to investigate art and for this purpose pinched his living; learned shorthand; did odd jobs; and finally went to Paris on his savings. Back from Paris with a thorough artistic background, he started writing; won a contest on the old Baltimore News at an age when most bright young men are beginning to succeed, took the resulting job offered him and in five years was managing editor, at an age when many young men are beginning to admit failure. His later years were devoted to the Baltimore Evening Sun and Baltimore...
From Senegal they pointed the bright tip of the Nungesser-Coli at the heart of the ocean, determined to pierce it from St. Louis, Bengal, to Port Natal, Brazil. Deftly they parried sly thrusts of gusty wind. Persistently they pointed their rapier at the mark. After an 18-hour battle, the Atlantic had been run through. The bright tip of the Nnngesser-Coli emerged over the night-shrouded field at Natal. France had had satisfaction...
...bright bazaar, the New York Electrical & Industrial Exposition which began last week, showed that of the 25,000 practical applications of electricity the ones most vigorously exploited are those most useful to housekeepers. They constitute two large groups dependent upon electricity's change into 1) power and 2) heat...
Third prize ($500) was given to Andrew Dasburg of Santa Fe. He had painted a ' table, on which a vase was full of poppy petals, heaped on the canvas like the bright blood of an immortal...