Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harold Ickes here, not Secretary Ickes," expostulated the gay and youthful groom in a bright blue suit. "I am not thinking of official business...
...bright green, oblong fruit which grows on small evergreen trees, citron uncooked is about as unpalatable as raw fowl; its pulp is bitter, its rind thick and tough. After being soaked in brine and cooked in syrup, however, it has a sugary quality much like other candied fruit. Some 5,000,000 lb. of citron are used annually in U. S. fruitcakes, candies and pastries, yet the fruit has never been produced in quantities in the U. S.; most of it comes from Sicily, Italy, the West Indies...
...Novello '38. Elkan Naumberg fellowship, Arnold Elston 1G. Robert Treat Paine fellowship, Robert E. Olson, Columbia University. Francis Parkman fellowship, Peter Viereck '37, Oxford University, England. James Mills Pierce scholarship and University fellowship, Edwin N. Nilson 1G. Rantoul scholarship, Donald W. Fiske 1G. James Rogers Rich scholarship, George C. Bright, Brown University. Henry Bromfield Rogers memorial fellowship and University fellowship, Arthur K. Van W. Ogden...
These batting spurts formed one of the two Harvard bright spots. The other was provided by the relief hurling of John Mahoney who followed Ingalls to the mound and allowed but three hits in four and a third innings. His slow curves had the Purple popping or grounding out weakly...
Technical, historical, and general reading are all mixed together in this field. Generally speaking, reading lists are made out from the point of view of the group I, or perhaps an exceptionally bright group II, man and hence play into the hands of the tutoring schools. English 30 and 40 are fine examples of this. Everywhere one turns in English, one runs into an hour exam, usually a factual one. Midyears and finals are more general exams, but are invariably too long and too pedantic. Professor Jones' exams were more highly held than others, however. Another fault of English exams...