Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comet, which was discovered a month ago in Australia and has been traced in its course north as far as Washington, D. C., will be most easily seen by the naked eye on Christmas day and will be the brightest one visible in 17 years...
...football of the Mauve Decade that the brightest stars shone, and the greatest machines rolled over all opposition. The famous "Deland Flying Wedge" of Harvard was answered by the "Guards Back", devised by George Woodruff of Pennsylvania. From 1894 on, this formation crushed Harvard teams under foot for four years. By sheer force of weight and spirit the University elevens were able to keep the score low, but the Quakers always scored enough to take the game...
...brightest spots of the afternoon, for the Harvard side of the Stadium at least, was the playing of the Harvard Band. Displaying a snap and precision, a rhythm, having besides, a drum major who did not fear the regulation size baton, the Crimson Band, deported itself in such a manner as to win the administration of both cheering sections...
...gyroscopes, gyro-compasses, stabilizers, searchlights (TIME, March 30, 1925, Nov. 1, 1926). At Scott Field, Ill., there is a Sperry light which airmen have seen 150 miles away, through 40 miles of rain. The new light in Virginia is five times as large and bright as this biggest and brightest light in Illinois. When 17,200 watts of current are turned on, the crater of the new light's arc becomes the hottest spot on earth-38,000° Fahrenheit. Quartz prisms in the 62-inch globe absorb so much of this heat that the light, passing off with...
Donaghy starred at bat for Harvard with three hits out of three times at bat while Burn's diving catch of Campbell's liner over second base was the brightest spot in the afternoon's fielding...