Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yesterday's practice was carried on in routine fashion, with most of the time being devoted to passing, dummy scrimmage, kicking under pressure, defense against New Hampshire plays, and signal drills. Bright point of the workout was continued improvement in the passing attack...
...Beverage alcohol (C 2 H 5 OH) does not cause cirrhosis of the liver, heart trouble, arteriosclerosis, diabetes, Bright's disease. It does not even cause d.t.s (the drunkard's deficiency in diet causes the illusion of snakes). It is only slightly habit-forming (smoking and overeating are far more...
...wide diversity in types of art; we are able to travel from the crisp little sketches by Oberlaender to a decidedly harsh watercolor by George Grosz. In this painting, called "Brotherly Love," there can be found the bloodshed, lust, and intensity of passion which characterizes war. His bright colors shed a distasteful but highly effective glow, and the physical gyrations of his men serve to heighten the wild and futile nature of armed conflict. Grosz never minces words; he seldom argues; but in a sweeping and rather dictatorial way, he hammers his point home...
...show began to shake the dust off its feet. By the end of the second act everyone was talking at once. Mr. Gage was roaring up and down stairs, Joan Croydon (Julie) was standing mid-stage screaming her head off, and things looked brighter. Things continued to look bright straight through to the final curtain...
...Emergency Reserve. Born in St. Petersburg, he thought it "reasonable" of Russia to wish her own former Baltic provinces to remain Baltic, not German. As for himself, "my home is in darkness, my income in jeopardy, my hopes for a career non-existent." Evelyn Waugh, creator of the bright young thing, observed with suspicious blandness that "the war is an extension of our normal habits of life; fighting has been a universal human activity and will remain...