Word: lucidly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unicycle from which great results are expected. There is a screw loose in the instrument or else in the description, for it is described as a "spokeless wheel, inside of which two persons can sit" while propelling it through the medium of "intricate, but easy working machinery." The lucid description further states that there are two wheels, one inside the other, but as the outer wheel only rests on the ground the machine is called a unicycle. - T. F. and Farm...
This may be a lucid statement in connection with this subject, but we confess that we do not understand it. Is it a Yale joke, or is it the "Yale method" of argument? We confess we have not given the subject of betting any prominence in considering this subject, and although we may speak "but of the heart," we are not aware that we have spoken "out of the pocket." So far as it means anything, it seems to mean that we were influenced in our article by some betting interest in the game. Comment is unnecessary. Having mentioned this...
...that they did." It may be due to our lack of sympathetic appreciation of the true in wardness of the thoughts that flit through the brain of the average Yale editor, but we don't know what the News is talking about, and await with great patience a more lucid statement of the difficulty...
...fact that the best literature is in the highest sense dramatic. The plays which are observed today are seldom, even in a crude fashion, literary. Sound literary spirit, nevertheless, adds force to a play. Action is not the one thing needed in a good drama. Thought, and the lucid expression of this thought are also needed in it. The emphasis which has been laid upon action and situation, however, has led the men of literature-the only real writers that we have-to let the stage take care of itself. The result, to say the least...
...fifteen. His "Magnolia Christi Americana" was the most famous book produced in America during the colonial time. Turning now to men of science we find John Winthrop, [class of 1732,] "was probably the foremost American of his day." His "writings are models of scientific exposition, thorough, simple, terse, lucid, graceful, having an occasional stroke of poetic beauty in epithet ; often rising into effortless and serene eloquence." But in poetry Harvard at this early day furnished the foremost as writers. She since has furnished Lowell and Emerson. Mlchael Wigglesworth, class of 1651 was in contemporaneous renown far above all other verse...