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Word: brightnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reed there are no intercollegiate athletics, no fraternities, and student self-government is important. The intellectual freedom Reed attempts readily persuades some august citizens of Portland that Reed is a bed of radicalism. President Keezer is known to have worn bright red duck pants on the campus, but to the calmer observer the president seems merely to be airing out academic sanctity. He prods bookworms into skiing trips, but makes no effort to attract or hold playboys to Reed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Airs Academic Sanctity | 4/16/1936 | See Source »

Appropriately housed in the bright Bignou Gallery high over the Rolls-Royce showroom on Manhattan's 57th Street, there opened last week the world's first public exhibition of the first tapestries ever woven from cartoons of famed modern artists. Agog at the novelty of seeing in fine-textured silk and wool original examples of what France's onetime Premier Edouard Herriot called in his catalog introduction "the whimsical fantasy of a Dufy, the 'color researches' of a Matisse, the free inspiration of a Picasso, the often satirical gravity of a Rouault," ecstatic esthetes gurgled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Twentieth Century Tapestries | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

...Aubrey Smith and his dog are trub the bright spots in a picture which might murder the appeal of Freddie Bartholemew for intelligent movie-goers. In "Copperfield" the boy was marvelous Please, Hollywood, don't make him into a male Shirley Temple...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

Although the CRIMSON did not escape the depression, it weathered it in fairly reputable style. Now that business conditions are improving, the possibilities of large salaries are exceeding's bright. All active editors of the CRIMSON share in these salaries, which consist of 50 per cent of the profits divided in a method outlined by the constitution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BUSINESS COMPETITION GETS UNDER WAY TODAY | 4/8/1936 | See Source »

...number of contributors is encouraging. With governmental taxes on large incomes almost confiscatory, great private institutions like Harvard must lean more and more heavily upon many modest contributors rather than the possessors of great fortunes. Generally considered the Fund has had small beginnings but continues to have a bright future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FUND AND THE UNIVERSITY | 4/7/1936 | See Source »

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