Word: lucid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another and three, Mimno, Chaffee, and King, do most of the work. King is generally regarded as the best as far as teaching goes. Chaffee is one of the country's leading authorities on some of his subjects, particularly vacuum tubes, but his lectures aren't always too lucid. Mimno generally has pretty good presentation...
...whom Lord Northcliffe once called "the greatest living journalist" finished his last, long-winded, lucid, discerning editorial. After 34 years, Britain's most quoted and respected editor, old (74), hawk-faced J(ames) L(ouis) Garvin was quitting the London Observer...
...made professor of art at Iowa State University. Working slowly and painstakingly (he averaged only three or four paintings a year), Grant Wood followed up his first success with a whole series of similarly lucid, polished and quaintly literal canvases. Studying the grim, stalwart Iowa farmers and their neatly fenced fields, Grant Wood got what he called the "decorative quality of American newness" into his canvases. He thumbed over mail-order catalogues to get every detail of his farm machinery just right. He exchanged the blurred-landscape technique of the Impressionists for an almost photographic preoccupation with homely detail...
...tactics of radio warfare are becoming familiar to the U.S. A lucid account of the subject appeared last week,† written by a 25-year-old analyst who had been in the radio melee with earphones on as a staff member of the Princeton Listening Center. He explained why the Axis radio has spent so much money and effort broadcasting by short wave to a country where "nobody" listens (best estimate of U.S. short-wave audience on any given day: 150,000). Biggest reason: to feed slogans and rumors to Axis agents, who spread them...
They begin to spring, in this third volume, with a lucid ferocity which will probably make the fourth even better...