Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bright winter day in 1748, Benjamin Franklin staged an epochal picnic by the Schuylkill River. On the opposite bank were arrayed Leyden jars. Using the river for a conductor. Franklin electrically fired a pan of brandy. To his guests' amazement, a turkey was then electrocuted, cooked on an electrically turned spit over an electrically-lighted fire. After further experiments Franklin declared that electrocuted fowl "eats uncommonly tender...
...Bright spot in the situation was the absence of any tendency towards "kick and run play" which is often fatal to team organization, especially early in the season
Among U. S. economists. Stuart Chase has a reputation for being the best storyteller of the lot. Master of the art of leading audiences up the mountain, he has held out bold and attractive visions of happy economic futures, plausible-sounding and easily-attained, in most of the sprightly, bright, informal, argumentative volumes he has written in the past eleven years. Interspersing his books with anecdotes, personal reminiscences, moral tirades against waste, he has always discussed human problems as an economist, economic problems as an evangelist, political problems as an engineer, and philosophic problems as an irascible citizen who wants...
...Eighty bright colored flags and banners, predominantly crimson and white have turned the Yard, one of the University's most famous possessions, into a gay festival eaclosure, the gayest in its long history...
...class, was 'a good scholar and respectable'; a second, a transfer from Dartmouth, was 'a decent scholar, and rather more than a quack doctor'; and there were also three or four 'respectable characters' who had not been to other colleges. But there was a sad example of the over-bright freshman, who, with too much time on his hands, fell in with gamblers and 'became a dissipated sot', along with a classmate who turned out an 'expert gamester.' One of an old Bay Colony family 'never had an idea in his life, except to grease his hair and clean...