Word: clearest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After he had lashed out at "this antiquated capitalistic system," Hicks went on to explain red-baiting as the product of two factors; first, capitalism's recognition of the Communists as its clearest-sighted and hardest-working opponents; second, the desire to discredit all liberal movements...
...would seem obvious," he writes, "that no college can be sure that its influence will control the words and actions of a large group of newly admitted students. Admonition at opening meetings and the clearest statement of regulations governing public conduct on the part of students may sometimes be ineffective, especially if the group of incoming boys is large...
Literature. Clearest, best-reasoned chapter on the cultural impasse of the Left is John Chamberlain's essay. Why, he asks, has the promised "proletarian" renaissance of contemporary fiction fizzled out? His answer: Because writers, with few important exceptions, can no longer find a moral basis for their characterizations; they cannot make up their minds whether to be evolutionists or revolutionists; their values shift constantly with "radical morality, in a world of Moscow trials, undeclared wars, 'Trojan-horse' tactics, and political 'timing' that frequently works out into two-timing...
...Netherlands and Parliament President Carl J. Hambro of Norway-scheduled to speak at Interlaken-it w'as careful not to ignore the lowly-born. One delegate to the assembly was Labor Leader Todd Sloan, 62, onetime London dock hand, to Oxford Groupers a "radical agitator" now reformed. In clearest terms he stated Buchmanism's new, grown-up policy: "In the moral rearmament of the Oxford Group I have found some common sense with real fire behind it-not the mean-minded revolution of the changed life in the individual, which never goes beyond personal convenience, but a broad...
...intimate" closing chapter on those ailments requiring sympathetic understanding rather than medicine and surgery, Hertzler, the country doctor, sounds not unlike William Allen White, the country editor and prairie philosopher. Here the reader gets the clearest picture of the gap between the old country doctor and his sophisticated successors...