Word: lucidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since he is a widely read economist in the U.S., the appearance last week of his first full-length book, a lucid, easy-reading summary of the Coyle philosophy, was news. Certain cobblestones in Roads to a New America* were carefully placed to jolt those who drive too far to the right; others, to jounce left-siders...
...Susie on the Sidewalk or Coffee Pot or something!;. Spending most of the night wondering if they'd get her there, imagine my confusion in the morning to learn the real words! Utter exhaustion kept me from further investigation ! My relief knew no bounds when I read the lucid (?) explanation in TIME last week...
Most impressive part of A Day of Battle is its account of the strategy of the two generals, one of the most lucid of recent fictional accounts of military maneuvers, apparently modeled on the greater panoramas of Tolstoy's War and Peace. Mr. Sheean's proof of the historical unimportance of the French victory is more tenuous, principally in the soliloquies of the French Foreign Minister, D'Argenson, who reflects as he leaves the field that the French aristocracy had won only with the help of "the savage exiled Irish," that there could be no real victory...
...their art. Appreciation of such forms is not purely abstract. Through the imaginations of writers as diverse as Emil Ludwig and Thomas Mann, the civilized life of the Nile has begun to intrigue common thought as Classic Greece intrigued it for centuries. In Never to Die, a neat, lucid book on Egyptian art and Egyptian writings, a little more dust is shined off the dynasties...
Designers of ship interiors are faced with the fact that decorations which might be diverting on land are often reduced to vulgarity by the Atlantic Ocean. Luckily for the Nieuw Amsterdam, the characteristic tradition of Dutch art. which is that of lucid Jan Vermeer and not that of umbrageous Rembrandt, contains excellent precedent for marine design. The modern architecture of Holland, exemplified in the Euclidean beauties of J. J. P. Oud's houses, contains even more. Making safe concessions to the tourist's desire for a "luxury ship," the Nieuw Amsterdam's, designers managed to keep...