Word: lucidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Julius. Hail, Caesar!, an uncritical popularization like his informal history of the U. S. Civil War (Ordeal by Fire), is written with a slapdash chattiness that often sinks to sophomoric levels. In his laudable attempts to English the dead Latin facts, Author Pratt sometimes makes his English livelier than lucid: "He was disposed to hold grievance that the Senate had not protected him to point and edge, and a snarling shuttlecock of 'Your fault' began to grow up, which was interrupted by a message that plunged them all into the well of misery together. . . . The old man hardly...
...Banks & Brakes," in your Feb. 10 issue: Please accept thanks from a non-business-minded coed for a very lucid explanation of inflation and credit matters. I suggest that every girl who has as much trouble as I do in grasping economic principles should keep this issue on her desk, to be read faithfully once a week till thoroughly absorbed. That will be my procedure, anyway...
...Detective Neumann found many & many a document missing or unobtainable, most witnesses untrustworthy or disingenuous, he has succeeded in piecing together the sinister tale of a completely irresponsible, destructive career, in showing that where there was so much international smoke there must have been some Greek fire. No coldly lucid exposition but an avowed attempt to get the goods on Zaharoff, the book soon has the reader goggle-eyed, leaves him swimmy-headed and reeling in a tangled jungle of economic-diplomatic chicanery...
...about the Fair, but about the multitude of questions it did not answer, the problems not yet solved. This week he publishes The Next Hundred Years: The Unfinished Business of Science,* in which he displays a vast store of information in fields other than his own, and in casual, lucid style examines the way in which tomorrow's world may be fashioned. The book is one of two January choices of the Book-of-the-Month Club...
...Premier of Czechoslovakia has been for many years a man whose name few European statesmen ever bother to remember, they never can get out of their minds Dr. Eduard Benes, quick as a squirrel, lucid as crystal, clever as the Devil, virtuous as the League of Nations and famed as "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman...