Word: brightest
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White Only. The segregationists' sun shone brightest last week on the porticoed facade of a hand-me-down structure built 50 years ago as a Methodist orphanage, later used as a graduate center for the University of Arkansas, now bought (by a wealthy Faubus backer, for $50,900) and relabeled: Senior High School-Little Rock Private School Corp. Newly titled School Superintendent W. C. Brashears (a former elementary school principal) announced a solid-sounding curriculum ("four years" of English, Arkansas and American history, applied mathematics, algebra, chemistry, physics, etc.), by week's end had registered 241 seniors...
...brightest spot to most companies, even those whose profits were down, was the fact that the third quarter often showed a sharp increase over the second quarter, when the recession bottomed out. Aluminum Co. of America earned $13.3 million in the third quarter, up from $8.0 million in the second; St. Joseph Lead earned $405,055, up from a $209,935 deficit; and Kennecott Copper $14.8 million, up from $11.3 million...
...preconception-shattering experiments, Peyton Rous stood before an audience in Manhattan to acknowledge a new honor in the string that has been lengthening since 1927: one of the Albert Lasker Awards ($2,500 plus a gold Winged Victory) of the American Public Health Association-one of medicine's brightest "Oscars...
...land of beef-price plenty, Nebraska is a state where organized labor has little real influence, and the brightest spot in the Midwestern picture for Republicans...
...powerful (700,000 members) Union Générale des Travailleurs d'Afrique Noire, he ruthlessly slashed his way to power, often quieted his opponents by the simple expedient of burning down their houses. Though he was a constant troublemaker, French officials grudgingly admired him as the brightest of West Africa's rising young black men. Furthermore, since Guinea sends 67% of its exports to France, and French capital has been pouring into the territory's industries and bauxite mines, Paris never dreamed that Touré would dare to cut himself loose from France entirely...