Word: clearest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they may be missing something, but more often with a conviction that they are not, that contemporary poetry is a doubtful contribution to the world they know. John Crowe Ransom's The World's Body is not a primer of poetry, but it contains one of the clearest explanations of the obscurity of contemporary verse which has been written, along with discussions that will whet a reader's appetite for poetry as much as mere prose...
...Corporation. He gave his complete support to the liberal policies of the University, including its maintenance of academic freedom under Presidents Eliot, Lowell, and Conant. In the counsels of the University he contributed a hard-headed common sense, often expressed in a picturesque vernacular, that presented issues in their clearest and simplest form and aided greatly in arriving at sound conclusions...
State art in Germany last Sunday received its clearest marching orders since the Nazis came to power in 1933. In Munich for the opening of a new House of German Art, 30,000 Nazis packed into the huge square on the Prinzregenten-Strasse to hear onetime Water-Colorist Adolf Hitler shout...
Time, discussion, debate, orderly processes of government--these are the essence of democracy as I see it. The clearest proofs, therefore, should be demanded by a legislative body before it is willing, on the plea of meeting an emergency, to go contrary to the spirit of constitutional democratic government. I have heard no evidence presented which indicates that it is necessary to settle this question of the Supreme Court before the time required for submission of an amendment to the country. Very truly yours, James B. Conant...
...legal profession has lost much of its old standing for many reasons. Mr. Landis has qualities which, disseminated over the years, might go far to recover this prestige. He combines with the clearest and fairest of minds a devotion to truth and the right that the country sorely needs in every branch of public service. Indeed, democracy can scarcely survive without the example and leading of such men in posts of responsibility. The whole legal profession is to be congratulated on President Conant's acumen. The appointment is nothing less than distinguished. --N.Y. Herald Tribune