Word: clearer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feeling which followed the world war rapidly faded, and the victorious nations still maintain their armies and still build their navies. But in all this time there has been an ever increasing undercurrent of feeling. From the Hague Conference down through the League of Nations and the World Court, clearer has come the cry for peace; and the nations of the world, weary and sick under their load of armor, are beginning to hear the call...
...these lectures is a guide to work and contemplation. It aims toward giving perspective. It gives a sane and modest view of man's place in the scheme. But in addition to giving a comprehensive view, the classification serves to interpret some phases of the sidereal universe in a clearer form than before...
Then up rose Mrs. Watson and Mrs. Leo R. C. Mitchell to meet Big Helen Wills and Edith Cross. Never was there a clearer demonstration that doubles play is a different game from singles, a game about which Big Helen Wills still has a lot to learn. The English ladies...
...Gospel of Getting On" portrayed in "Mrs. Warren's Profession." Gone is the emphasis upon trifles--passable enough in the informal surroundings within which the original speech was delivered--but necessarily out of balance when reported in print in the newspapers. In their stead, is a larger and clearer statement of much value and true point for these times. Boston Evening Transcript...
...election welter and hubbub of British politics the figure of bob-haired David Lloyd George grows daily clearer. Sunk into comparative obscurity six months ago, his theatrically effective plans for the relief of unemployment (TIME, March 11) may win enough seats for the despised Liberals to give them the balance of power in parliamentary debates between Conservatives and Laborites, both numerically more potent...