Word: clutter
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...sometimes very funny set of lay sermons about the human predicament as examined in terms of "you-your home and kiddies, mom and the loved ones, old Doc Smith and the preacher, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Star-Spangled Banner-in short, the American scene" plus the still uglier clutter backstage. Novelist Wylie's high desire is to save the human race from its own worst enemy-itself. Whether he will succeed where such distinguished predecessors as Christ, Dostoevski and Blake have so far failed is open to question...
...almost entirely furnished by the occupants as compared with Harvard's desk, bed, two chairs, and a table set-up makes the problems entirely different. Dartmouth will need that furniture in case they are called upon to train men for the armed forces, whereas here, student furnishings would merely clutter up suites expanded with extra beds...
Doing away with much of this clutter of ribs and spars is a major step in development of the flying wing, for this bodiless plane must have clear wing interiors to make room for passengers, cargo, bombs, Northrop Aircraft built a two-engined flying wing with a 38-ft. span, flew it so successfully last fall that the U.S. Army popped the queer plane out of sight for further development. Reason: some engineers estimate that the plane, lacking a tail, has 40% less head resistance than a conventional plane, and every square inch of its body contributes to lift. Hence...
...flurry of badges and class ties. This little booklet, meant only to serve and direct them through the harrowing experience of a reunion, should not be allowed to remain unhonored and unsung in the crowded pockets of the wives and children of the class or in the clutter of an editor's desk. That was where we found it, though the child made a certain amount of trouble it, though the child made a certain amount of trouble until we beat him a trifle with a Class Marshal's baton, rifled his pockets and hid him behind a sign marked...
...biggest New Deal messes has been the housing program. The mess finally got so frightful that even Franklin Roosevelt, who can stand more clutter around him than most men, waved his arms and shouted for his chief housekeeper. Rotund little Judge Samuel Rosenman grabbed dustpan and broom and waded...