Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tact, psychology, patience, and a sense of humor are the requisites of a good usher", according to an experienced member of the University Theatre's bright uniformed coterie. A good usher has to be able to handle everyone from little Cambridge ragamuffins to dignified but myopic old ladies, and he may use a different technique with each group...
...Rapids gathering there took place in Manhattan in the apartment of Scripps-Howard Columnist Heywood Campbell Broun a meeting which had nothing to do with U. S. legalists. At Mr. Broun's were gathered a group of liberal-thinking newshawks, and, with them, Mr. Broun's friend, bright-eyed little Lawyer Morris Leopold Ernst. Hatched at this and subsequent meetings was what has since grown to be the American Newspaper Guild. Lawyer Ernst had a lot of ideas about the newshawks' union, became its lawyer, drafted its constitution...
...Russian short-story writers -his adherents say, greatest in the world -Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is principally known to the U. S. as the author of one play, The Cherry Orchard.* Never so popular as Maupassant, and overshadowed today by such compatriots as Tolstoy and Dostoievsky, Chekhov had a bright day in his own lifetime (1860-1904), will no doubt re-emerge in the future. His comparatively few U. S. and English readers have generally found Chekhov, even in translation, an unforgettable experience...
...been to inject the gas into the room in which the subject was seated and then to apply a number of driving tests which have been worked out by DeSilva. These tests include brake reaction, depth perception, the ability to see dim objects at the side of a bright light, the ability to perceive the approach or recession of objects, and accuracy of steering...
...northern sky, on the other side of the Pole star from the Big Dipper, is a prominent, W-shaped constellation named Cassiopeia. The bright central star at the peak of the W is called Gamma Cassiopeiae. Of the second magnitude in brightness. Gamma is a hot blue body of some 25,000° C. surface temperature, as against the sun's 6,000°. In the closing months of last year astronomers noted curious fluctuations in the quality and quantity of light from Gamma, which may be throbbing indicators that it is preparing to burst forth as a nova...