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Word: brightnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bright half-moon shining on Madrid from a clear, starry sky helped intensify the bloody horror of Spain's Civil War last week. It meant that the capital's inhabitants, beleaguered for nearly four months, had no respite even at night from Generalissimo Francisco Franco's White bombers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: No Candy Drops | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

Like most critics, Husband Stieglitz felt that the ablest picture in last week's show was Slimmer Days, showing a deer's skull floating in the sky above a scattering of bright field flowers, then beneath, the misty mountains of New Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Skulls & Feathers | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

Trickling back like a slow-running, twinkling stream, come post-exam stories that fill the student's cup brimming full once again. One senior of no inconsiderable reputation, in particular, had sipped of the dregs of examination life and found them bitter. He determined to seek out the bright lights of a large metropolis to the south, second only to the Hub itself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 2/18/1937 | See Source »

Things are looking bright down in the Newell boathouse these days as the first crew season under the guidance of Tom Bolles gets under way. While nothing too definite about the prospects of the eight can be determined until they have been out on the water for several weeks, the material which Coach Tom Bolles and Captain Eddie Bennett have to work with is certainly on a par with that of the last season's squad, which sank Yale on the Thames in June...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/17/1937 | See Source »

...Down to her new office in Trenton bright & early went the only woman bank president in New Jersey and probably the prettiest bank president in the land. Her election to that job in Trenton Trust Co. was no gushing matter to green-eyed, graceful Mary Gindhart Roebling. Briskly she got the jump on local newshawks by asking them if they were depositors in Trenton Trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Personnel: Feb. 15, 1937 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

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