Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prince: You certainly know how to take life from the bright side...
...life. I think life should be more like the movies," says Mary Wallace (Myrna Loy) soon after she has had a quarrel with her husband. This movie is too much like life to be spectacular entertainment. Nevertheless it is a biting case history of what has happened to some bright young people in the last ten years...
...teamed up with his elder brother Robert Alphonso in the practice of law. Meanwhile his family grew to two sons, five daughters. Busy as he was with the law, Charlie Taft was never too busy to respond to a call for help from practical Christian enterprises. This able, potent, bright-faced member of one of Cincinnati's great families served the Episcopal Church, the Y. M. C. A., the Community Chest, the Colored Industrial School, the Widows' & Old Men's Home with superhuman energy. Of larger importance, however, were his driving efforts to give Cincinnati...
...comet was a tiny blob hanging in the northwestern sky for a few minutes after sundown. The other was the comet found two months ago by Leslie C. Peltier, famed amateur of Delphos, Ohio (TIME, June 7). Laymen who hunted out the Peltier object, hoping to see a big, bright feather similar to Halley's comet in 1910, were disappointed. Unless they had binoculars they saw nothing but a blur, no brighter than the dimmest member of the Big Dipper...
Hypnotist Cannon makes it abundantly clear that there is nothing mysterious or difficult about the technique. All that is necessary is for the subject to relax, drive all thought from his mind, fix his attention on some object (usually a bright light), listen to the operator's soothing suggestions of sleep. The hypnotic state resembles sleep except that the unconscious mind is in touch with the operator and can be swayed by his suggestions. Almost everybody, unless he is confident of being able to resist and does resist, can be hypnotized into the first "light" state; three persons...