Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bright boy at Princeton, the University of Virginia Law School or Washington & Lee was lanky Frank Joseph Hague Jr. After eight years of dawdling, he never did get a degree. In 1936 he managed to get admitted to the New Jersey bar. Last fortnight, events in the politically throttled State of New Jersey conspired to place Frank Hague Jr., 34, on that state's highest bench (Errors & Appeals) as a lay member at $9,000 a year. The events: 1) loaded with mortgages on properties from which high local taxes had driven business, a big Jersey City bank failed...
...common butterwort is one of several plants which exude a sticky substance so that the leaves act like flypaper. "Pitcher plants" grow leaves that collect and hold water in which insects, birds and mice, attracted by toothsome exudates, fragrant smells or bright colors, are drowned. The bladderwort is an underwater plant whose bladders are equipped with elastic, one-way valves. Once a small crustacean or fish has ventured in, he cannot...
...Institute of Human Relations is an unorthodox, pioneering institution. First of its kind in the U. S. it was founded ten years ago by two bright Yale deans, Robert Maynard Hutchins of the Law School (now University of Chicago's president) and Dr. Milton Charles Winternitz of the Medical School (now retired). They decided that physical scientists and social scientists working together might start a new science of human relations whereby man could learn to be happier and on better terms with his fellows...
...LAND IS BRIGHT-Archie Binns- Scribner...
...history since the Children of Israel went to the Promised Land." In fiction, the old Oregon Trail is still well plodded. But far fewer novels than pioneers have come through alive. Outstanding survivor was H. L. Davis' Honey in the Horn. Archie Binns's The Land Is Bright is another...