Word: lucidly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spells good complexion; nor improve the laborious heaping up of sentences that recall Freshman compositions in which every preposition helped to attain the required thousand words. In this case the required 214 pages contain the usual directions for shifting the weight from the right to the left foot; a lucid diagram of the centre theory (advising for net play a deep ball centre, which opens up less of the player's court to the opponent's return); repeated admonitions to practice "for is it not so in everything-the more one learns the more one realizes there...
...place of the Kellogg Treaty. Inspection showed that Foreign Minister Briand of France had felt obliged to so qualify the expression "renouncing war" as to emasculate it of all meaning. The Briand Treaty is in six elaborately weasled articles, whereas the Kellogg Treaty contains but three which are explicit, lucid. The first sentence of Article I of the Briand Treaty runs to 112 words, is typical, may be instructively quoted: "The high contracting parties, without any intention to infringe upon the exercise of their rights of legitimate self-defense within the framework of existing treaties, particularly when the violation...
...Countess Maritza" is about as lucid a reason for incessant warfare in the Balkans as has been discovered in many moons. Any 100 percent Balkan state which sees itself portrayed as the anonymous one in this piece does cannot but go home thoroughly determined to rearrange...
...caused him to be listed among the 25 most able U. S. preachers. This technique consists of a manner as far removed from oratory as it is from the garbled sensationalism of street corner evangelists. Dr. Jefferson speaks to his large audiences quietly, in the tone of courteous, dignified, lucid and friendly conversation. He does so in the Broadway Tabernacle, Manhattan, a church situated on the boundary of that bright, dangerous region in which ignorant and reckless ladies derive a huge profit from services best left undescribed, in which thieves and theatre managers flourish...
Observers saw in this candid, concise, lucid statement one more proof that Count Volpi epitomizes the best type of self-made Italian business man. Sprung from an old but untitled Venetian family, he was obliged when a boy to earn his living by manual labor. Came an opening in the Levantine shipping trade, and he plunged into a career during which he built up a great chain of trading establishments between Italy and the Near East. Rich, potent, he turned from business to devote himself brilliantly to affairs of state. Premier Giolitti entrusted to him the negotiation of the peace...