Word: brighter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a Princeton legend to the effect that Coach Roper can make a good team out of anything-excepting good material. Rarely have Princeton prospects looked brighter than this year. Rarely has a seasoned team played sloppier football than, two weeks ago, Princeton played against Amherst, and last week against Washington and Lee. The Virginians, superior in every department except kicking, held Roper's lettermen...
...year's smartest custom effects . . . for the first time a vacuum- cleaned crank case to protect closed car passengers from engine fumes." Cadillac. Five hundred color combinations, 50 body styles and types. Chevrolet has centralized throttle and spark control and automatic stop light on all closed models; brighter, more striking Duco colors; new motor mounting; new camshaft. Nash has refined motor, 25% more power, 23% faster accelerator, new instrument board. Oakland. "The rubber-silenced chassis"; new bodies, new Duco colors. Star offers "more power and superior quality . . . new body lines, new colors, new mechanical refinements." Studebaker stresses "The President...
...College year that is drawing to a close has found Harvard athletic teams more generally successful than has been the case for several years past. The crew race with Yale is the last event on the college calendar. Chances for a satisfactory climax in New London are brighter than they have been for a number of seasons...
...time. Then they make it clear that as she has conceived, so shall she bear. No fair telling the end, shocking though it is; Miss Macfadyen has devised with restraint worthy of emulation. She handles substance as deftly as shadow and abides by Rule 1 for horror-writers?"The brighter the sun, the blacker the shade...
...need one condemn her at all. For she will no doubt sell many copies of "Home Talent" and grins will grace the faces of many an inspired reader who will gain both a knowledge of just what one does ion those brighter circles of the theatre and what one doesn't--all in spite of the fact that the writer has never been in South Africa. Indeed, there is a certain gain accruing from an even careless reading of the book: one learns of the theatre. Just what worth the learning has remains a trifle doubtful. But it is there...