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...comments on women: "a string of indecent words . . . unspeakably vulgar. . . . He is really a whole orchestra, but not all the horns are playing in unison. ... It is terribly stupid to call a man a genius. It is quite impossible to understand what genius is. It is far simpler and clearer to say-Leo Tolstoy...
...Science Editor was hoodwinked into thinking he was making scientific sense. Not so. He was merely giving wider circulation to the engineering firm's kidding the mumbo -jumbo language in which too many scientific treatises are written. He was also, by implication, making a plea for a simpler, clearer use of the King's or any other English...
...wanted to find out the price for which the newly rampaging Chinese Communists would settle. He asked Lo Lung-chi, head of the pinko Democratic League, to find out. Lo had a talk with Communist Negotiator Chou Enlai, then Lo spilled enough beans to make the Chinese situation clearer than it has been for many a week...
...sniper, looking through a fat telescope ("sniperscope") mounted on his carbine, saw a bright green picture of everything in front of him. The gadget flooded his field of fire with invisible infra-red light. Jap uniforms showed up clearer than in daytime. Any attempt at camouflage was a dead giveaway...
...Hampshire, Washington, and Britain had much clearer memories of him. The son of a New York blue blood, he had been shy and scraggly at St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., shy and scraggly at Princeton, which he left without a degree to campaign for Teddy Roosevelt in 1912. At St. Paul's, where he returned to teach history, students sometimes had difficulty hearing him. But his low-voiced earnestness had an incandescent quality they never forgot...