Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While other astronomers pondered the darkening of light (see p. 26), Dr. Willard James Fisher of Harvard Observatory anticipated an unusual brightening of darkness. He reminded U. S. stargazers that this year the Leonid meteor display will be the most brilliant since 1866. Star lovers who want to see the cosmic fireworks will have to stay up late during the first week of November, watch from midnight on without blinking. One blink may cause the watcher to miss a meteor which shines for less than 1 sec. Best astronomical advice is to keep an eye upon the constellation Leo (south...
...save a mulatto girl, Harvey realizes that the only reason she has stood by him is because she is not pure Negro but part white. Actor Wilson's role is played with earnestness and fervor, but the play has not been written well enough to bring out its brilliant possibilities...
...inconsistencies, they would drive a section man to the farthest reaches of insanity; they are so brilliant. One moment sexual love is the epitome of human force, the next it is a sex-stie. The silver stallion is continually fading into the mangy old grey mare, but his ideas as he gallops along are struck off like sparks from a flint...
...muddy and slippery gridiron at Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. After D. R. Weir '32 had made a long run, Richard Murphy '32, took the ball on the next play and scored the touchdown for the Juniors. The Senior score was made when H. R. Nyhoff '31, after two brilliant long runs, went over for a touchdown. Neither team was able to make the extra points...
...Sanger strain in Caryl becomes completely apparent to Sebastian on his return from Paris when Caryl, told by Gemma of Sebastian's relations with Fenella, kicks him downstairs. Sebastian promptly calls Fenella and runs away with her. But this time Caryl profits. Like most things brilliant, Sebastian's charms are not particularly adaptable. When Caryl, bent on delivering a message to Sebastian and resigned to the loss of Fenella, finds them together, he discovers that all is not harmony between them, that Sebastian is thinking of Gemma, Fenella thinking of Caryl. After that Caryl takes Fenella away. Sebastian...