Word: explicitly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...while his colleagues are sitting brings Senator Caraway close to more colleagues on both sides of the aisle than he could inspect if he sat like them at a desk. Yet none knew better than Senator Caraway the difficulty for the News of escaping libel damages if it became explicit. Therefore, and perhaps because he thought his wandering habits had been hinted at by the News-for he is a militant Prohibitionist, though no hypocrite-Senator Caraway challenged the News to publish some names. There the matter rested. No names ap peared, Ohio's dry little Fess said...
...place of the Kellogg Treaty. Inspection showed that Foreign Minister Briand of France had felt obliged to so qualify the expression "renouncing war" as to emasculate it of all meaning. The Briand Treaty is in six elaborately weasled articles, whereas the Kellogg Treaty contains but three which are explicit, lucid. The first sentence of Article I of the Briand Treaty runs to 112 words, is typical, may be instructively quoted: "The high contracting parties, without any intention to infringe upon the exercise of their rights of legitimate self-defense within the framework of existing treaties, particularly when the violation...
...hypocrisy, and flung herself the more violently into a materialistic existence that was promiscuous, not to say debauched. McGreggor, sensual himself, imagined her life as accurately as it is possible for a Victorian to imagine looseness; but did not take it to heart until Ann expounded to him the explicit creed of her unmorality. Terrified by realization of his religious failure as exemplified in Ann, Hugh resigned his worldly parish and became pastor of "the barest and humblest of churches." Ann settled down, in time, to suburban matronliness; rearing her children as conventionally as her stuccoed neighbors reared theirs...
...Milan, last week, interested observers turned to a report on the Italian hydro-electric industry which was issued recently by Signor Giacinto Motta, managing director of the great firm which produces 30% of the electricity used by Italians, namely the Edison General Italian Electric Co. of Milan. Brisk and explicit, Signor Motta keynotes thus...
When asked to be more explicit in regard to the grievances of the commercial mentors which he represents, Dean Donham readily replied, "It is the old grievance of capital and labor," he said smiling. "We across the river suddenly realized that Capital was giving us no support. Big Business was almost completely ignoring one of the largest academic plants in the country and was shirking duty in the subsidy of its operating expenses. It is true that there have been some minor gestures, as witness the Weeks Bridge, but they can only be called casual pittances flung to the Business...