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Word: clearest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latest work is the best obtainable antidote. If he recognizes the need for planning now but does not understand how it can be done, the book will furnish him with a generalized picture of one possible course of action. For, in this volume, the author has formulated both the clearest analysis of "what went wrong last time" and the most persuasive program for preventing a repetition of those mistakes that has yet appeared...

Author: By T. S. B., | Title: THE BOOKSHELF | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

...advise each of seven Detroit-area zones, to learn all their problems and potentialities; a bi-weekly bulletin listing hundreds of needed war items; a new sense that the regional WPB office was really empowered to by-pass Washington. Said one Grand Havener: "You fellows have given us the clearest understanding yet of the function of WPB and how it can help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decentralization at Last | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

...started something when he began making blot-pictures, by folding a piece of paper on a blob of ink. He showed the "pictures" to patients in a sanitarium and asked them what they saw. He tried hundreds of blot-pictures, finally selected ten which seemed to bring out the clearest responses. Today, after 20 years, psychologists all over the world have adopted his blots, use the Rohrschach Test not only to ferret out neuroses but also for vocational testing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blot Test | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

This left two men free: Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov from Leningrad and Marshal Budenny from the south. Joseph Stalin did not scrap them. He gave them a new job, the clearest signal yet that Russia will fight to the last snowball: to form great new armies from raw conscripts, armies to take their stand beyond Moscow to fight for the lands beyond the Volga, beyond the Urals. The new armies will be ill-trained, ill-equipped, ill-fortified. But they would not be formed if the Russians did not still intend to fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: New Commands | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

...spot he loved best was the place where he had so often shown himself, like any citizen in his rough tunic, his pants tucked into his boots, before the millions-on Lenin's tomb in the Red Square. So one of the clearest hints of Stalin's emotion and Moscow's peril last week was the closing of the tomb. Millions of Russians had made the pilgrimage to this shrine. Its closing suggested that Communism's holy relic, the remains of Lenin, had been sent away from the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Appointment in Samara | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

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