Word: lucid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...distinction of Lee's Lieutenants is its clarity. Dr. Freeman has written some of the most lucid accounts of military action in U.S. literature. Only the Civil War generals themselves have surpassed him. Readers baffled by technical military language can follow his descriptions of complex engagements without trouble. In the process they will become acquainted with (if they never get to know well) some friendly, simple, good-hearted and courageous officers and gentlemen...
...outline on big pieces of foolscap. In the twin studies of their new Milford home, looking out on the rolling Connecticut hills, they wrote The Rise of American Civilization, America in Midpassage, and The American Spirit - four volumes that told and interpreted the whole story in 3,362 lucid pages...
...Joseph was cast into the pit, then sold into slavery (Young Joseph), or the intensity of the amorous scenes with Potiphar's wife (Joseph in Egypt). But while it is written with the deliberately pedantic humor in which Mann casts his cosmic irony, Joseph the Provider is so lucid that the magnificent flow of its prose may well be overlooked...
...book. In it the automobile evolution is traceable in illustrations of 250 cars and motorcycles, mostly dating from 1902 to the early '20s. Many of the illustrations are photographs, made by cameras whose eyes had not lost their innocence. Many others are drawings, some as stripped and lucid as blueprints. Others blend the clean precisions of semimechanical drawing with proud, naive little achievements that catch the shine of leather and paint, the glamor of glass, the tilt of a driver's sporting face...
Jean Burton, who has made eccentrics her specialty (Elisabet Ney, TIME, April 5, 1943; Sir Richard Burton's Wife, TIME, June 23, 1941), has written a lucid, witty biography of the most successful, most enigmatic of these 19th-Century mediums. Daniel Dunglass Home was born in a small Highland village. His father was the illegitimate son of the tenth Earl of Home. His mother specialized in prognosticating the deaths of her best friends. In 1840 the Home family emigrated to the U.S., leaving Daniel in the care of his aunt, Mary Cook. When he was nine, Daniel...