Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State he was shortstop on the baseball team. His capacity for beer was exceeded only by that of his good crony, lusty George links. Never did a public argument arise-the shooting of Edith Cavell, lynching in the South, the hypocrisy of the Billy Sunday school of revivalists - but vivid George Bellows felt impelled to get himself and his trenchant pencil into...
Swinging off special trains, stooping out of special airliners, squinting at California highway signs, nearly 4,000 U. S. bankers merged into San Francisco last week for the 62nd annual convention of the American Bankers Association. In their baggage were golf bags and tail coats. In their heads were vivid memories of the 1934 convention in Washington, when Jackson Eli Reynolds of Manhattan's First National Bank swayed them by eloquence and earnestness into a truce with Franklin D. Roosevelt. And on their collective conscience was last year's meeting in New Orleans, where they had broken that...
Friedrich Bergius, though he is one of Germany's most brilliant chemists, may some day be the most bitterly hated by that country's common people. He is a specialist in those technologies to which necessity is not only mother but sedulous nurse. Vivid in the German mind is a hateful memory of the Ersatz (substitute) foods consumed in great quantities during and after the War. If natural food again becomes scarce in Germany, Chemist Bergius will doubtless be in charge of producing Ersatz food for empty German stomachs. Lately he has worked out on a mass-production...
European family chronicles that detail the rise & fall of a great fortune usually follow a pattern that permits little lively narrative, few vivid characterizations...
...scholastic apparatus of his long histories has been omitted from this vivid chronicle by the author. In the small area of 489 pages (plus index) he has attempted to tell, for the benefit of the average reader, what the average reader, will want to know. He has succeeded amazingly well. The undergraduate will turn immediately to the chapters on student customs and traditions, which, with those on the development of the various clubs, of athletics and other activities make fascinating reading. But these are by no means all he will find delightful. There are accounts of the political manipulations (some...