Word: cruder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...approach the performance of German lieder with utmost concentration of vocal and intellectual capabilities. Musically, these songs demand controlled tone-color and intonation that come from years of training. At the same time, the singer must make the all-important text meaningful to the listeners without resorting to the cruder acting techniques of opera...
...often shown only what your hosts want you to see." It was Attlee's hope nonetheless that a look at the cloistered rulers of Communism, who have never seen or been seen by top Westerners, might prove instructive in many ways, provided one could distinguish "eyewash" from cruder reality. Not all Britons were convinced of Clem's ability to make the distinction. A Liberal Party spokesman warned Attlee & Co. that they were treading "on very hot bricks." London's Economist scolded the former Prime Minister sharply for "serving the purposes of a [hostile | propaganda machine...
...layers were modern. Just below, he found tools and fragments of pottery from the "historic period" when Shanidar belonged to the Persians, the Assyrians, the Babylonians or the Turks. Below this layer, metal relics gradually disappeared. Stone tools took their place, and the pottery shards grew simpler and cruder. At four feet below the present floor, Solecki left the New Stone Age and passed in a couple of feet of digging into the Old Stone Age, which probably ended in Iraq about 10,000 years...
...basis of quantitative economic laws. For ten years he collected data, aided only by a single assistant. In order to have a manageable theory that could encompass the whole economy, and that could absorb the masses of detailed statistics already available, Leontief had to work with assumptions considerably cruder and more restrictive than most economists were willing to accept. He had to bet that the advantages of examining all industries at once would compensate for the lack of sublety. These advantages could not appear until the data was virtually complete; meanwhile, there was little to publish, little on which...
Many eye doctors were inclined to sniff at the optometrists' new chart, arguing that most such gadgets are crude at best, and the Snellen is no cruder than the rest. However, the last word may be the optometrists' : they give three times as many eyesight tests as the ophthalmologists...