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Word: pellucid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

Pundit Walter Lippmann, who sometimes writes like a pellucid angel, sometimes like poor Poll, got his claws tangled with his beak last week in the New York Herald Tribune: "It was never possible, we must I believe suppose, that we could induce the Russians to lift the blockade unless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Phrase of the Week | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...Bolster'd with down, amid a thousand wants, Pale Dropsy rears his bloated form, and pants; "Quench me, ye cool pellucid rills," he cries, Wets his parched tongue and rolls his hollow eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors of Verse | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

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