Word: lucidly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...group of fearless Manhattan students who intend to ship in cattleboats or steerage, sleep in their clothes on European railroads, enter Sovietland and there gather first-hand material for what all government experts, professional press men and inquisitive business representatives are believed to have left unwritten-"a lucid and penetrating report on Russia...
MAPE, THE WORLD OF ILLUSION- Andre Maurois-Appleton ($2.50). Enchanting as the world of illusion may be, it becomes tedious when created or interpreted by colorless characters. The author of Ariel (that rare book) has here expended his remarkable power of lucid biographical romancing upon two fruitless subjects out of the three chosen. The power remains admirable, but the reading palls. The young Goethe's windy sentimentality for Charlotte Buff is shown translating itself into that sweet and sticky opus, The Sorrows of the Young Werther. Other chapters demonstrate the dull phenomenon of Mrs. Siddons, a British beauty with...
Sirs: Because TIME records all the news each week and at the same time manages to do usual so in a crisp, lucid manner without the usual dry-as-dust solemnity, I enthusiastically recommend it to everyone as the best magazine on the stands today...
...history of the idea. It takes him 336 pages to put it all down thoroughly, but the style is so crisp and lively, the chapters so economically arranged, the illustrations-verbal and photographic -so clear and well-timed, that Reader Doe will come to the end breathing easily. Particularly lucid is the exposition of chromosomes and the variations they produce; particularly commendable the author's ability to keep his reader im- pressed at all times with the enormous diversity of life and the in- cessant struggle for existence. Reader Doe is most likely a memtally-gregarious animal. It should...
...contributed anything new to the theory of war; he has clarified what has long been known. But this is a service which is important and of which the subject has long stood in need. For a book that is semitechnical and semihistorical, it is a marvellous piece of lucid writing in the simplest of language...