Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...been apparent all fall that Harvard could travel far with just a rock-ribbed forward wall and almost no offense. Now that the ground attack has come, Crimson enthusiasm knows no bounds. The only effective damper is the vivid recollection of the stains of "Good Night, Poor Harvard" pouring out across Soldiers Field one year ago after a similarly favored Harvard team had been soundly whipped by the fighting Elis...
Under the microscope, blood from a victim of malaria is as vivid as a southern sunset. In mild malaria, the red blood cells appear speckled with pink. In violent forms of the disease, the corpuscles darken to dusky copper, mottled with purple. These changing hues show the progress of the fight between invading malarial parasites and the body's defending blood cells...
Bursting with pride and conjugal affection, brash little Broadwayman Billy Rose proclaimed that, his New York World's Fair Aquacade ended, its vivid, dark-eyed queen, Eleanor Holm Jarrett Rose, would "retire and run our home." Trilled Aquabelle Eleanor: "I had a wonderful dream last night. I dreamed I woke up and my maid said, 'Your bath is ready. And I just laughed and told her, 'I'm never going to get in the water again...
Siepmann emphasized the fact that radio must not attempt to argue particular solutions to problems, such as unemployment, but has a social duty to present the facts in a vivid way to the masses, which only radio can reach. The public must be taught that "unemployment is not a static; it is a human experience," Siepmann pointed...
Most U. S. schoolboys have goggled at museum collections of armor, swords, muskets, pistols. Few museum arms displays are calculated to stir the imaginations of adults. But last week, Leslie Cheek, imaginative director of the Baltimore Museum of Art, put on a vivid show called "Again: Arms & Armor...