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Word: brightnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...essential for this mode of study. Of these tutors Munn was recommended as a great individual teacher, and Steel was declared one of the best tutors in the field. Chandled and Sedgwick are good, but they have to be drawn out; Worcester is also good, but perhaps too bright. Morison and Rackcliffe were well recommended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Articles on Fields of Concentration | 5/31/1938 | See Source »

...bands of agrarian soldiers, members of the private army of San Luis Potosí's General Saturnine Cedillo. Soon 22 agrarians lay dead, 15 wounded and 80 more were being rounded up as prisoners. But defiantly, 75 miles away, a lone Cedillista pilot dropped down out of the bright Mexican sky in one of the General's fast fighting planes, zoomed over the Potosi airfield where President Cardenas had established his headquarters at Vista Hermosa, dumped four ineffective 25-lb. bombs and high-tailed it back to his secret air station in the hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Cedillo Squeeze | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mudville Man | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...artist thus admired in his own profession does not often grow rich, but commissions ranging up to $15,000 have given Augustus John an old stone manor and a bright pink studio in Hampshire, another studio in Wales. John offspring include Son Teddy, a successful professional boxer, Daughter Poppet, who married well, and Son Casper, a member of the Air Ministry Mission recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ex-R. A. | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...into the air and then plummet downwards like rockets, leaving behind them long confetti-streamers which are lost below in dense clouds of mist. Down their in the flat valley, the river could forget this roaring nightmare and become a lazy serpent of varied greens; light greens where the bright sands lay near the surface, shading off perfectly into mysterious black-greens where the deep pools were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/24/1938 | See Source »

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