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Word: brighter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gathering. The U. S. Marine Band played "Dixie." So great was the excitement that two oldsters were hospitalized. One died. Old codgers sat about swapping stories of Fair Oaks, Chickamauga, Spottsylvania Court House. Time, for a few days, was turned back for these lingering old men to a better, brighter land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Men of Grey | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...Elkins '29. It is not yet certain whether the Bigelows, twin-stars of the defense, will return next season or not. With the remainder of the squad intact and reinforced by several members of this year's powerful Freshman sextet, hopes for another strong Harvard team are brighter than usual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIDDENS WILL LEAD NEXT SEASON'S SIX | 3/20/1929 | See Source »

Lately, the Rt. Rev. Cyril Forster Garbett, Bishop of Southwark, England, caught the colorful spirit of the age and pleaded for brighter Bibles. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Brighter Bibles | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...Londoners may soon expect to see brighter and cheaper illumination struggling through the city's fogs. For into the English light-&-power industry last week entered the Utilities Power & Light Corp., a multilateral U. S. utility company headed by Harley L. Clarke of Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Lights o' London | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...behind, higher in front. 5) Trig jackets-many reversible-are especially smart for city and sports. 6) Summer fabrics, very simple for day wear, with a startling revival of bright ginghams and even calicos. 7) Hats are even smaller and sleeker, many brimless and exposing the forehead. 8) Colors, brighter, with contrasting red and black in the ascendant, plus many new shades: pewter, menthe, lucifer, Capudne, Lelong blue and green. . . . 9) Fads red hair, tennis trousers for women, pajamas at luncheon.* naughtily named knee length nightskirts: "Dream of Me," "Alarm Clock," "Midnight Tonight," "Turn Your Head. . . ." French mannequins this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mode 1929 | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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