Word: clearer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...August Belmont, Mrs. Reginald de Koven, Mrs. Murray Crane, and having for its classroom, at fashionable three o'clock on Thursdays, the ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Editress Edna Woolman Chase and Miss Caroline Duer of the Vogue staff were announced as assistant lecturers, making it clearer than ever that of all fashion publications, the Nastian was held pre-eminent by New York University authorities. Problems and topics to be treated by Publisher Nast and his assistants, with demonstrations by suitable models: the heavy woman, the elderly woman, good taste in dress, buying and selling fashions, the sartorial...
...took out my famed Patent No. 7777, for a 'tuned' or syntonized system of wireless telegraphy, permitting the clearer re ception of messages, and of more than one message simultaneously on the same antenna. By 1901 I had so built up the power of my transmitter that I attempted talking from Cornwall to Newfoundland-with success on the very first trial. (This feat bore out my old contention, assailed by many, that the curvature of the earth would not impede the progress of electric waves.) The following year saw the extension of transatlantic communication to Capes Breton...
...Retirement has its uses for the man of many contacts. Small breaches heal or become clean cut. Afterwards the way is sometimes clearer...
...current situation remained static during the week. The average level of industrial stocks scarcely budged over the previous week's. Rails made a trifle better showing. Investors seemed marking time for a clearer prognosis of conditions...
...primitive race Nature presents a chactic activity that at first glance is terrifying and bewilderingly disjointed. In both cases adolescence brings a certain sophistication in regard to this chaos and at the same time a desire to introduce order. A vague suspicion is born that perhaps after all a clearer perspective will make possible a deduction of true values that remain untouched by the whirling flux of events. The child has become a philosopher. And it may be said that the hall mark of civilization has always been its ability to contribute to the ever widening stream of philosophical thought...