Word: lucidly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...example, been president of the American Anthropological Society, and editor of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. But he is not the dull academic he claims to be. His book, Mankind So Far, which deals with such a complex topic as human evolution, is so lucid and light that it has sold over 20,000 copies. This sale is a incase for a scientific none that Doubleday was also happy to snap up his two subsequent books, The Heathen, a study of primitive religious, and Back of History, the history of humans, published this year...
...every case of threatened infringement of academic freedom ends on a sad note. Often lucid men acting with dispatch effectively challenge attempts to curb free expression. Such is the instance in the argument between the Hall County Farm Bureau and Professor C. Clyde Mitchell of the University of Nebraska, in which the professor's right to state his opinions was forcefully defended by his university...
...time when a great many people-including influential Americans-are becoming almost emotionally 'for' him, it is important to recognize the Mendès-France anomaly: he combines an extraordinary lucid view of France's capabilities and responsibilities with a refusal to deny the naïve conviction of most West Europeans that Communists are basically ordinary people with whom, if you try hard enough, you can always do constructive business...
...every case of threatened infringement of academic freedom ends on a sad note. Often lucid men acting with dispatch effectively challenge attempts to curb free expression. Such is the instance in the argument between the Hall County Farm Bureau and Professor C. Clyde Mitchell of the University of Nebraska, in which the professor's right to state his opinions was forcefully defended by his university...
...wish to express my profound admiration for Secretary of the Army Robert Stevens. . . He has returned courtesy for discourtesy. He has given lucid answers to confused questions . . . Above all, he has preserved his good temper while dealing with bad temper...