Word: cogently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Margaret this summer was named head of Washington, D.C.'s Trinity College (enrollment: 646), her own alma mater ('45). Last week, in her new role as one of the nation's youngest college presidents, Sister Margaret, 36, called a press conference and let fly with some cogent thoughts on the education of U.S. women...
Coach Cooney Weiland must have spoken some cogent words in the dressing room before the second period, for the Crimson put on an awesome display of offensive power following the intermission...
...petition points out that the Student Council should not run the Class Marshal elections since it usually has one of its members as a candidate, in this case, Leland. This is probably a cogent criticism, but the fact remains that the Student Council has been running this election for many years, and there can be no good reason for choosing 1958-59 as the year to have a new election under a hastily instituted new procedure...
Howard Moss has obviously written The Folding Green to be a witty and cogent commentary in the mannered, whimsical style that Poets' Theatre comedies frequently affect. It is thickly scattered throughout with jokes and clever remarks--many of which were greeted by the opening night audience with a justifiably damp silence...
...account for this progressive collapse of ancient cultures? Muggeridge sees one cogent reason: "Practically everyone wants to live as Americans live. It must be the first time in the history of the world that human desires have been so standardized. Driving at night through little American towns, I used to notice it. Neon signs starkly proclaimed contemporary man's basic requirements-food, drugs, beauty, gas. These are the pivots of felicity in the mid-20th century. Everywhere in the world is getting to look like everywhere else, and everyone is getting to look and be like Americans...