Word: vividness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Montgomery's was almost an invisible operation, so fast did he move, so meagerly was the Eighth's progress reported. Most of the vivid news from Sicily came from the southwest, where the U.S. Seventh Army had landed. Only the Eighth's Canadians, advancing at the center of the entire invasion front, were thoroughly reported in the first eleven days, and they fumed because they had so little fighting...
Torpedo 8, fruit of NANA Correspondent Ira Wolfert's three-month stay in the South Pacific, is a report of U.S. air fighting in the Solomons. Terse and nerve-tingling, the book communicates the stab-&-run violence of aerial battle with a verbal violence as calculated and vivid as an explosion...
...cartoon digest notion never got out of swaddling clothes, but Disney's imagination had been kindled by Seversky's vivid word pictures of what air war could, and would, be like in the immediate future. He arranged a meeting with Sascha, and the two men set to work to translate the book into film. The resulting Disney-Seversky Victory Through Air Power will open in New York next week, then be distributed nationally by United Artists...
...This vivid tribute was paid last week by Christopher Morley to the nation's No. 1 printing and book designer, 73-year-old Bruce Rogers. The occasion was the appearance of one of the handsomest books ever published in the U.S.-a Rogers-designed, Rogers-authored textbook, Paragraphs on Printing (William E. Rudge's Sons; $10. Special Edition $25). It contains no less than 100 reproductions of Rogers' fastidious artistry -title pages, half titles, tailpieces, imprints, bookplates, pure type decorations. Notable are three inserts of pages from Rogers' magnificent Oxford Lectern Bible, finished...
...Germans were knocked out of the air both by night and by day, the 28-year-old flying officer declared. He described in vivid detail several dogfights in which his squadron participated...