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Word: brightnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diplomas which step forth into the world. Such levity is inevitable, but it should not, and it does not, impair the delirium of the last week of a college career. It is the Seniors hour, and none should approach to mar the glory whose memory will remain ever bright...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND FESTIVITY | 6/18/1927 | See Source »

...Cambridge" in style, is a modern adaptation of the best in Georgian architecture. Viewing it from the shallow quadrangle formed by Emerson, Sever, and Robinson Halls, one is impressed not so much by its magnitude and line as by the open expanse of skylight and the suggestion of a bright, shadowless interior...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Opening of New Fogg Museum Monday Culminates Era of Advancement in the Field of Fine Arts | 6/18/1927 | See Source »

...never have been very bright...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 6/17/1927 | See Source »

...descended to the platform, stern and imposing, to accept without moving a muscle of his face the homage of some thousands of rural townsmen. They, well-meaning, slaughtered many sheep, and one gangling camel in honor of the new railway and Ismet Pasha. To make the celebration more costly, bright shawls and valuable rugs were dipped in blood from the slaughtered animals, then burned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: New Railway | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...Mayday twilight O'er the bright skies pearl-coloured clouds float through the emerald space, While on the shore the wavelets Lightly take hands, rise and subside, dance like enamoured naiads. Into such a scene on the last day of May roared the poet in his speed boat. Like a mad modernist, scoffing at his own lyrics, Gabriele d'Annunzio disturbed the waters of Lake Garda (in the Italian lake district), annoyed ladies and gentlemen lolling in boats covered with bright awnings. He detests fat people and, what is more, he was out to add another title-speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: D'Annunzio's Speed Boat | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

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