Word: brightest
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...football teams lined up opposite each other this afternoon will mathematically symbolize other parallelisms than past football glories at times extinguished. For the two brightest galaxies in the entire academic firmament of American are those of Harvard and Chicago. Within the space of its short life, the latter has produced a Breasted for almost every Kittredge, a Millikan for a Whitehead. And if Harvard, regards, itself as the leader in educational, innovations, it may well wink at Chicago's introduction of quarterly sessions, of learn as-fast-as-you-can methods. Europe's unblessed--the great martyrs of Democracy...
These are the gloomy spots. Brighter is the fact that guard Dave Glueck is back and set to go, although withheld from contact work yesterday. Brightest of all is the mental attitude of the players; not one trace of last week's pessimism is evident, for they all know they gave their best, and when the breaks come, they are going to show the experts that writing about the "finis of the Big Three" is a lot of what they put on the grass to make it grow...
Although this fall's turnout of 100 Yardling grid aspirants fell short of the figures of the past two years by some 30 men, prospects for a winning team seem the brightest since...
Five years ago, attentive U. S. watchers of British literary skies noted the appearance of young Cecil Day Lewis in a constellation of Oxford poets whose brightest star was Wystan Hugh Auden. Few watchers knew, however, that in addition to writing leftish lyrics, Poet Lewis also wrote detective stories under the name of Nicholas Blake-well-plotted affairs such as There's Trouble Brewing and A Question of Proof. This week, his latest murder mystery appeared with both his name and pseudonym on the jacket. This may have been self-protection, for The Beast Must Die revolves around...
...Institution, he hired an editor, Felix Morley (brother of Christopher), who soon won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. To give the paper zip, he hired a Middle-Westerner as managing editor, Alexander F. ("Casey") Jones. The Post soon developed a set of features good enough to be syndicated. Brightest among them are the arresting cartoons of 28-year-old Gene Elderman...