Word: lucid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amazed at the comprehensive and lucid coverage of your Pacific war news. Those of us who are in the thick of it can appreciate the excellent job you are doing. . . . Each of us is engaged in our own little phase of operations. Then we sit back, read TIME and get the overall picture. It makes us twice as proud of the part we played...
...Arthur Emmons Raymond, high-domed, lucid, 44-year-old vice president in charge of engineering. His hotel-owning family wanted him to be a hotel man. Instead he went to Boston Tech; after graduation he returned to California. In 1925, Douglas wired Boston Tech for the name of their best stress analyst. The answer came back: "Arthur E. Raymond and he works for you." Douglas found him in the shop...
...Seuratiana and to the painter's lifelong friend, the aged and acute French art critic, Félix Fénéon, from whom he has not heard since the fall of France. The result is an unexpectedly intimate portrait of an unusually reserved man, and a lucid exposition of his "scientific" methods of painting...
...every airman knows, it is also sometimes bound to get cloudy-a fact that has saved and cost many combat flyers' lives. Because clouds are one of the important military concerns of World War II,* scientists have recently taken to more intensive cloud-gazing. Last week an unusually lucid explanation of the function of clouds in war was presented by an old cloud man, William J. Humphreys (retired) of the U.S. Weather Bureau, in a new book, Fog, Clouds and Aviation (Williams & Wilkins...
...those days Andre Maurois wrote: ". . . There was an immediate clash between the morbid susceptibilities of Monsieur Desjardins . . . the diabolical maliciousness of Gide. . . . The Germans . . . enveloped the lucid ideas of the Frenchmen in ... abstractions . . . Lytton Strachey ... in amazement at our lack of humor . . . went to sleep. ... Its virtues far outweighed its drawbacks. . . . There was talk of giving Paul Desjardins the Nobel Prize for Peace...