Word: succinct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...damned useful." Human minds cannot fairly be put into pigeon-holes. Nor can their opinions on a subject like tutoring at Harvard be accurately summed up in a flashy epigram. Each student thinks differently about it, and the collective opinion is a many-tentacled monster indeed. But in five succinct words, one student did succeed in roughly synthesizing the sentiments which the majority of his fellows nurse, and which they recorded in the Crimson poll...
...years ago the U. S. had its first peek at the book in an abridged form which reduced the 781 original ranting pages to a more succinct 297. This version sold some 25,000 copies. Seriously impaired by condensation, however, was the original's most important feature-its faithful prophecy of Hitler's subsequent aggressive foreign policy...
...honest peasant folk who domiciled on our landed estates in the neighborhood of Flushing, L. I. At an early age I recognized in him the guiding genius and spark which has, I am sure, contributed in no small way to his promotion to the editorial staff of your succinct and pithy publication...
...really think that TIME has something that no other news organ has. Brief, succinct write-ups. Clarified international situations that the average person finds hard to grasp from sometimes conflicting newspaper reports...
...organized the Soviet in Hunan Province. Despite the internal feuds and contradictory policies of the Comintern, the Hunan Soviet lasted from 1930 to 1934, and with only 40,000 men stood off four attacks by Chiang Kai-shek's armies. For this success, Mao had a succinct reason: The misery of the peasants, whose desperate lot (their taxes were collected as far as 60 years in advance) led them to support the Reds' guerrilla warfare...