Word: lucidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lucid But Not Light. The Evolution of Physics does not contain a single mathematical equation or formula, but it is studded with a number of helpful diagrams. Co-author Infeld writes with lucid, straightforward simplicity, not devoid of patches of whimsey-as, for example, having shown how modern physics banished the concept of a jelly-like ether which carries light waves, he thereafter refers to the ether, when necessary, as if it were a swearword: "e-r." The authors admit that the avoidance of mathematical languages involves a certain loss of precision. But the loss is held to a minimum...
...body of his writing, so unaccented and interwoven with descriptions of scene that casual readers may not recognize the observation that has gone into them. But even casual readers must be impressed at the way Wilson combines artful characterizations of scholars, homely, humorous details of their households, with lucid statements of the problems with which they grapple; be even more impressed at the meaning he wrings from a brief encounter with learned academics on a Princeton Sunday, or from the life and letters of a neglected Bostonian...
Wide-spread interest has been aroused in the musical world by the arrival in America of Mile. Nadia Boulanger, who is lecturing at Radcliffe during the second semester. And whether lecturing or directing the Glee Club and Radcliffe Choal Society, she makes music live with her lucid and sympathetic expositions...
...Town centres in a bashful boy-and-girl romance, but the general theme is more properly the chores and pleasures of Grover Corners as a whole. Without solemnity. Wilder seeks to transform the commonplaces of village life into the verities of human existence. Using fibred dialogue and lucid pantomime, for two acts he catches the fumbling wonderment of ordinary people, cakes their life with humor, charges it with feeling. The emotional climate is exactly right: warm...
...Beard spent eight years accumulating the amazing mass of facts for A History of the Business Man, had to be goaded into finishing the book by her energetic mother, almost had a nervous breakdown before she completed it. The result is a volume that businessmen could value as a lucid, informative study of their pioneering ancestors. The dimensions of the book are extraordinary. The 28 chapters are subdivided into 209 sections, covering commercial cities from Carthage to Chicago, war makers from Crassus to Krupp, business failures from John Law to the Van Sweringens. There is a warmly-written, fact-laden...