Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extraordinarily vivid little procession of human existence, beautifully written by an ironist who is above bitterness...
...hills about the Wergha Valley awoke. Abd-el-Krim, leader of the Riffian tribesmen, began his long-awaited offensive on Fez, the northern capital. Guns roared, shells screamed and cracked in vivid detonations, spluttering the ground with jagged, death-dealing steel. Bombs dropped from airplanes whinnied as they tore down to earth where they burst with staggering force. Grenades rasped their ugly barks and poked the earth with their deadly stings. Rifles snapped and bullets spat death. Men lived and men died. The Moroccan War (TIME, May 11 et seq.) entered its most serious phase...
...vivid account of President Marvin and his work, see the interview granted by him to Editor George Marvin (no relation) in The Outlook for July...
...whirring, crashing, oozing with live things-centre on an inverted, deaf, lethargic, odorless, whistling sloth; the falling of jungle leaves; beachcombing at midnight; men and monkeys; a mangrove tree. His enthusiasm and patness often cast doubt upon Author Beebe's scientific veracity, but insure excellent reading. The style, vivid and highly charged with verbs and adjectives as exotic as the boat-billed toucans on the book's jacket, ranges from the masterly English of Galapagos and Jungle Nights, to sloppy jargon. In the midst of Author Beebe's spells, one is continually jerked up by the wish...
Ever since the auto bus began to be developed as a serious competitor of railroad and traction companies, there has been a vivid interest in Wall Street in Mack Trucks, Inc. Earnings on the stock have been sensational, and prices for it have soared on the anticipation that soon a big "melon" would be split for the special benefit of the shareholders...