Word: clearest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will appear later this year. Dr. Carrel, who says Assistant Lindbergh has "one of the keenest and most intuitive and inventive minds possible to imagine,'' wanted to tell the world of science the all important things they had done. Last week Science printed their joint report?one of the clearest papers to come out of the Rockefeller Institute in all its 32 years of existence...
...Days, from the fall of the Romanov Dynasty in March 1917, to the introduction of the New Economic Policy in March 1921. Neither brief nor pro-Bolshevik, Author Chamberlin's two-volume The Russian Revolution will probably not win its creator burial in the Kremlin, is nevertheless the clearest and most detailed account of "the greatest social revolutionary movement in history" yet offered U. S. readers. Written in a methodical narrative style, with patient concentration on day-to-day, almost hour-to-hour shifts in the forces favoring or opposing the revolution, The Russian Revolution 1917-1921 is faithful...
...indictment of the "system." And, like the novel, his accounts were turgid, myopic, verbose, sorely needing the astringent blue pencil of a copy desk. He seemed to be arguing that had the boy had more money, he would not have got himself or his girl into trouble. Clearest point: "I am inclined to agree with the French that crimes which concern love and passion and the ambition of youth are nothing which the law, in its cold, calculating and in the main commercial mood, should have anything to do with...
...stuff to Lawrence enthusiasts, but they will want to read it if only for the 14,000 words of quotations from Lawrence's unpublished papers. Liddell Hart, military expert, places Lawrence's Arabian campaign in relation to the rest of the World War and gives the clearest exposition of it extant. He deprecates the view that Lawrence's success as a leader of irregular troops came from innate genius, calls Lawrence a profound student of tactics, a military thinker. Basis of Lawrence's tactical scheme was to avoid battles, destroy Turkish material and morale. Says Lawrence...
...released this week. As one of the men closest to the President, whatever Mr. Wallace has to say carries particular weight, and in this statement he has a great deal to say. It is couched in broad and general terms, and it is, unless I am greatly mistaken, the clearest adumbration of what Mr. Roosevelt's future policy, foreign as well as domestic, is going to be, that has yet appeared...