Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which slices through the city's midsection, 38 of the 55 drawbridges rose up to stay. Honking automobiles, clanging streetcars, cursing pedestrians piled up at the open bridgeheads, turned to fight their way back. Policemen shouted into dead telephones; their inter-communicating system was useless. State Street was bright with its private lighting system, and elsewhere in the Loop store lights and advertising signs glowed through the gloom, but most of the Second City's outlying streets were doused in country darkness. "It's the city's funeral, not ours," said Michael J. ("Umbrella Mike") Boyle...
Fight Against Fear (See front cover) Jack Dempsey had screwed up his courage for a fight last week. Bright & early one morning he turned up at the State Supreme Court building in downtown Manhattan, prepared to testify that once he had been afraid to fight, had paid to be let off. Old Champion Dempsey's reputation for ferocious pugnacity remained unblemished. But as proprietor of big, flashy Jack Dempsey's Restaurant, across the street from Madison Square Garden, he had, according to the courtroom story of a State prosecutor, encountered an enemy more formidable than any Firpo...
...determination of homing pigeons but utterly unable to fly, their efforts to get off the ground cause them to somersault backward. Single Tumblers flop over once, Double Tumblers twice. Parlor Rollers will roll 75 ft. backward without stopping. ¶ Most numerous were 600 Kings-large, white birds with big, bright red feet. Handsomest were varicolored, round-breasted Modenas. Rarest were white Frill-backs, a breed recently restored to standards of show excellence, with small up-curling feathers on wings and back. The National Pigeon Association's meet usually goes off without squabbles but it includes much shrewd bargaining. Individual...
...setting the date for these tests in April, the committee has done a good turn to all concerned. For the College can select its candidates, at least tentatively, in June, thereby adding tot he lustre of the already bright national awards. And those who fail will not have to sit around until August building castles in the air. Thus the new tests can be taken as another step forward in the educational march, and one which reflects particular credit on Harvard...
After due consideration of the claims of all three the editors of TEMPUS finally decided on Cleopatra and they placed her photograph on the title page with a bright red border around...