Word: clearer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over the whole broad earth, as the meaning of the swift drive through Poland became clearer, the nations seemed to be withdrawing into themselves like coiling springs wound ever more tightly. With its daily and hourly revelations of deficiencies, allegiances, loyalties, its drastic breaks with the past, with traditions and plans, with cherished projects, World War II assumed a magnitude at its beginning that World War I did not assume until its end. But it was a different kind of war-a war of diplomatic assaults and economic raids, in which the troops of aggressive nations only moved upon nations...
...step toward declaring war on Germany by breaking off diplomatic relations. If Benito Mussolini was playing Adolf Hitler's game by waiting, Ali Maher Pasha wanted to find it out. If Italy took no stand in this attack on her Axis partner, her intentions would be that much clearer. Ali Maher Pasha settled back to war with Germany, wait with Italy...
...spite of laymen's hopes, the question of life on Mars will probably not be solved when Caltech's 200-inch telescope gets into action (perhaps next year). The giant instrument will show Mars larger but not much clearer, on account of atmospheric distortion. The light by which earthlings see Mars is reflected sunlight-and that means light which has passed twice through the Martian atmosphere and once through the Earth...
Previous-lightning measurement has relied mainly on the oscillograph, which records the changing intensity of a bolt by means of an oscillating electron beam playing on photographic film. The fulchronograph is not only cheaper to use, says Westinghouse, but furnishes a clearer lightning picture...
...engineers hope Big Bertha will be powerful enough to come in clearer than its German rivals. Its news will certainly be more credible. Hundreds of South American listeners have lately written to U. S. stations that they regard European newscasts as blatantly biased, those from the U. S. as objective. Said one: "Station W2XAF is considered a semi-official news bureau here. . . . When "we do not hear it, we ignore the news, particularly the foreign news...