Word: lucid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When the Harvard Defense Group held a meeting at which problems of manpower were discussed, two representatives of the Trade Union Fellowship group were asked to participate. Each of the men picked an aspect of the manpower problem which he knew from personal experience and gave a succinct and lucid talk. Nearly all of the Trade Union Fellows attended the Business Executives Conference at the Business School on December 5, at which problems of manpower were under discussion, and made valuable contributions to the proceedings. As the report on the project sums it up, "Although they (the Trade Union Fellows...
...Volume I amply demonstrates that the year of Bull Run was as nerve-racking for the South as for the North. Its greater value for U.S. readers and soldiers lies in its lucid recreation of the conditions of battle, the political and tactical situations as they were glimpsed, guessed, judged and dealt with by responsible men on horseback...
Carr clearly saw the social revolution coming and believes that World War II is part of it. But his quiet, lucid revolutionary outlook upon the world of today is not hooked up with Communism. Indeed, British pinks sniff at Carr of the Times as a "self-appointed critic of Marxism...
Food-Weapon of Conquest (Warwick Pictures; United Artists), a propaganda documentary film, makes a thrilling story of the role of food in World War II and after. Lucid, instructive, it is just what the U.S. Department of Agriculture might have ordered to explain its new wartime strategy for the land. It was made, not in Hollywood, but in Canada...
...liver, gastric ulcers. When his great friend, Author Gene Fowler, visited him, Barrymore stage-whispered weakly: "Come closer, Gene, and hold my hand . . . lean over, Gene, I want to ask you something. ... Is it true that you're an illegitimate son of Buffalo Bill?" During a later lucid interval he was received back into the Catholic Church. Last week, at 60, with only his brother Lionel at his bedside, John Barrymore died...