Word: clearest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...literary life. Thus he rails against "sleek, conspiratorial, mean-spirited bigotries," without denning them, against reviewers who resent his "rise in the world," against old friends who feel insulted if they do not get inscribed copies of his books, but never acknowledge them if they do. But his clearest picture of the literary jungle is in his account of his first success, Nocturne, with the "tonic" letter it won from Shaw: "I found it a damned dismal book...
...Rose Bowl's games are not composed of matched stock-shots in the accepted current technique, but were played partly on U. S. C.'s fields, partly in the Rose Bowl, partly on a gridiron built on the Paramount tank stage. The resulting action shots are the clearest of the current football picture cycle, a verisimilitude unfortunately not shared by the plot...
...story is paralleled by that of his brother, Peter, who was driven by a fierce determination to get out of the slums, became a white-collar worker, married a good, respectable girl, but landed in trouble when he was forced to lead a strike. Aside from these two, the clearest characterization is Lizzie, Johnnie's wife, who married beneath her station, became obsessed with her husband's fighting ability, egged him into one fight after another, provided him with girls when his passion for her ended. Although these figures are sometimes vividly seen, they tend to disappear...
...manuscript was lost until 1907, when it was discovered in Mexico City by Herbert Eugene Bolton, professor of history at the University of California. A brisk, concise volume, Kino's account of his life, together with his "chatty" letters to the Duchess and others, gives one of the clearest pictures available of the daily life in the missions that were established more than 30 years before Jamestown was founded...
...purchase of stocks did not afford a good hedge against price inflation in this country at that time, for the primary purpose in buying stocks in such a period is to seek protection against the advances in the cost of living," the statistical seer concluded gloomily. "One of the clearest of the lessons to be derived from the European experiences with inflation is that there are no good hedges against...