Word: lucid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Through lucid pamphlets written by outside experts, I.C.S. teaches close to 2,000 subjects in some 400 courses, ranging from third-grade arithmetic to shipbuilding. The courses cost the students $60 to $200. Revising and expanding them costs I.C.S. up to $200,000 a year...
...about the present war. It is, naturally, very different from other war books. Few terrible things happened in the quiet villages of Bilignin and Culoz, where she lived for four years before returning to liberated Paris. But Miss Stein noticed and pondered almost everything that did happen. Though more lucid than usual, her peculiar prose will probably still baffle most plain readers...
Brought to Action (U. S. Navy-War Activities Committee), is a beautifully edited, terse (21-min.), finely lucid record and explanation of the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea. Certain of its shots of doomed and dying enemy ships, of enemy planes coming apart in midflight, give a clearer realization that human life is involved in them than anything in the greater naval record Fighting Lady (TIME...
What is America? What does it mean to be an American? What is the essential faith of America? Today, by their very presence on distant battlefields, Americans raise these questions anew. This closely reasoned, lucid, lengthy (688-page) book is an effort to provide an answer. The work of a distinguished 68-year-old Harvard philosophy professor (whose Thought and Character of William James was a Pulitzer Prizewinner in 1935), it is a rigorous scrutiny of the foundations of American belief...
...film is a lucid composite of several missions against sources of anything from Heinkels to ball bearings. It gives much the impression of a single day's work. The flight itself, the mortal moment when the bombers, committed to their target, are locked defenseless in their courses, the thick flakiness of flak and the grim-gay dialogue between gunners and pilots-these things have already been paralleled in the memorable Memphis Belle. But the preparation, the aftermath, the cold exactitude and inflexibility of purpose, the extraordinarily various and forceful individuality and professionalism...