Word: clearest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overcoats began to gather their cars around station platforms. Other grey-green overcoats in London were leading little lines of towheads with lunch boxes and gas masks to Euston, Waterloo, Charing Cross, Victoria, Paddington stations, stuffing them into cars with more grey-green overcoats headed for whatever destination the clearest track presented. Each towhead had a postcard to send home when it got where it was going. The scheme had worked perfectly on paper, but would it work? Lady Reading and her 300 aids in their old building on Tothill Street, Westminster, kept their fingers crossed and waited. By nightfall...
...Martian inhabitants desperately trying to keep their arid lands irrigated. Other astronomers, some with better eyesight than Lowell's, declared that the canals were optical and psychological illusions. Certainly narrow, clear, straight markings which could be called canals do not show up in photographs, appear at their clearest in the drawings of astronomers who believe in their existence...
...best book because it is his clearest and most interesting, The Bridegroom Cometh "dramatizes [says Frank] in flesh and blood the loss of the religious instinct in modern American life, and both the need and the promise of its triumphant rebirth." It is really a sequel: all of Frank's writing is focused on the search for a new religion...
Declaring that "It is now apparent that opponents of the present relief policy of the government propose to center their attack on the Federal Arts Projects," it claims, "The Federal Arts Projects are the clearest and most characteristic expression of the policy of the government to give relief to the unemployed by giving work suitable to their experience and training...
...size in the U. S. Most influential is the Dundee. Complaining that there are not enough books with uplifting messages, Dundee clubwomen go in for exhaustive analyses of novels, one member charting the plot, a new member describing the setting, and a veteran speaker discussing the philosophy. Clearest proof of Omaha literary societies' influence is in the history of Lloyd Douglas' famed inspirational novel, Magnificent Obsession. Passed up by Eastern reviewers, the book was plugged by a local minister to Omaha book clubs, began to sell throughout Nebraska, has since sold about 225,000 copies...