Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second problem in developing accurate, clear communication between the Government and the Navajos was not handled by us at all, but by Mr. Rudolf Modley, who should receive public credit. It is not quite correct to state that Navajo, as it exists, can't find a word for such terms as "sheep unit." The trouble was that the interpreters, misunderstanding such terms, used the wrong terms in Navajo. Mr. Modley gave statements involving all such new terms to an interpreter, who passed them on in Navajo to several other English-speaking Navajos. These in turn told Mr. Modley...
...Pacific, crossing South America, the South Atlantic, South Africa, and ending in the Indian Ocean. Because it crosses wide stretches of land, its shadow path will probably be as heavily studded with astronomers' camps as that of the total solar eclipse which four years ago swept clear across Asia (TIME, June...
Today the Baboon Boy is about 50. He still has no clear idea of time, cannot write, retains some of his apish facial and bodily mannerisms. He has to be reminded to start any task. But once started, he works steadily until the job is done...
Editor Freeman made the Civil War in Spain clear to Richmond readers by comparing Talavera de la Reina to Burkeville Junction, Va. When German troops concentrated at Aachen, soon after World War II began, Dr. Freeman wrote in the News Leader...
Many observers devoutly agree that the year 1940 would be a good year for a lot of people to get some clear ideas about "Democracy." Two very different books on this grand topic are John Chamberlain's and J. P. Mayer's. Chamberlain's is a businesslike analysis of the way things in the U. S. appear to an alert young man who has humane hopes and unusually good information. The other is a scholar's account of another young man who wrote about the U. S. 100 years...