Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christopher Columbus. In the Dominican Republic, people seldom speak of Trujillo by name. When they discuss their savior, they find it safer to refer to the local equivalent of "Mr. Jones" (as do Benito Mussolini's subjects). But when Senator Green & companions got home last week, it became clear that Trujillo had also done himself a good turn. Mr. Green regaled his acquaintances with accounts of the seven hospitals, the sanitation, the orderly well-being apparent in Ciudad Trujillo. A correspondent of the Washington News who accompanied the party recorded that Trujillo was a wonderful fellow, that bootblacks wiped...
TIME is not "Curt, Clear, Complete" when it uses the word "pretty" in describing Senator D. Worth Clark, the junior Senator from Idaho. There is nothing in the reference to Senator Clark in your March 13 issue that called for any such adjective...
...Taxes that slow up business must not be revised if doing so means a loss of revenue. He complained that the press had not made clear his insistence on that point...
...processes of thought are clear, direct and, within limitations, coldly logical...
...what Japan was doing in the Far East would become vitally important. For some time there has been a lull in hostilities during which Japan was reported moving large numbers of troops to Manchukuo-on hand for anti-Russian duty. Last week Japan ended the lull and made it clear that while its right hand remained clenched against Russia, its left was going right on lighting firecrackers against China...