Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Kirtley Mather has solved the problem of showing Mother Earth's growing pains to his students in vivid lecture room demonstrations. With only the 273 men in Geology 1 (formerly good old Geology 4 and 5) as his materials, he has created a successful and extremely spontaneous earthquake. Yesterday's lecture was the first at which seats for the course were assigned, and everyone promptly found their proper seats in the proper sections, guided by the directions chalked on the blackboard, LEFT--CENTRE--RIGHT. While Dr. Mather was chatting with his assistants before opening the mysteries of Geol...
...eleven years it held the largest circulation in the world, well over 1,500,000. Longtime runner-up to the Mail is impish Lord Beaverbrook's Express (until this year, 49% owned by Rothermere). The crusading Express is jazzy, sensational, easily readable, packed with shrill headlines and vivid pictures from front page to back. Its circulation for the past few years has pressed within 200,000 of the Mail's. The News-Chronicle, a liberal sheet controlled by the Cadbury (chocolate) family and sport-loving Lord Cowdray, customarily ran third. In 1930 the Daily Herald ran a miserable...
...soul of a people tired of remembering their defeat in 1918, their impoverishment under inflation and the feeling ever since that Germany had ceased to be a Great Power. In unlacing this straitjacket of a national inferiority complex no Nazi has helped Adolf Hitler so much as the taut, vivid, sometimes hysterical, little man whom all Germany knows as "The Doctor," famed Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, now Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment. To an amazing degree Herr Hitler and Dr. Goebbels possess in common the trick of talking to grown Germans as if they were children, yet with such...
...hoped that TIME'S "vocabulary-builders'' will be able to maintain their flair for vivid and witty epithets even during the summer's heat and humidity. Their characterization of members of the Civilization Conservation Corps, recruited from the unemployed, as "workers-in-the woods" (issue of June 19) is a bit flat...
...human beings whom he has no reason to hate. When he gets a chance, Fredric March-a conscientious, intelligent rather than a brilliant actor-makes the growing emotional pressure of a man who finds himself in a quandary which he can do nothing to escape, seem immensely credible and vivid. The incident in the story by John Monk Saunders is as melodramatic as is customary for narratives of its type. The last sequence-in which a gunner puts the pilot's corpse in a plane and riddles it with bullets to make it look as though he had died...