Word: easiest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...telephone to Mr. Burke's office in Massachusetts hall and ask to have the articles valued. An appraiser will be sent to his room, and if the student agrees to the price set, the College will buy them. This means of disposing of college furniture seems to be the easiest and the most--satisfactory. For the simple reason that the University is not doing the purchasing as a money-making scheme, the prices paid are usually much fairer than any obtainable elsewhere...
...this alluring advice leads to a concrete moral-Work! The task that Sir James has proposed is not the easiest; words will not bring it to pass. It will mean learning to understand our elders and the world, shouldering responsibilities, pursuing that elusive phantom, Truth...
...will not interfere with the candidates' preparation for their final examinations. It will chiefly consist of acquainting the men with the routine office work and the system employed in securing advertising and new accounts. This competition, continuing as it does for about eight weeks in the fall, affords the easiest opportunity for Freshmen to make the Board since practically all concerns compile their year's advertising budget in September, which is consequently the most opportune time for soliciting contracts and new accounts...
Parody is at once one of the easiest and one of the most difficult forms of literary performance. It is an old, old business. As old, let us say, as the impulse to destroy your fellow caveman, whom you could not lick on the physical merits, by withdrawing to a safe distance and mimicking his personal mannerisms and tone of voice, or exaggerating in a drawing on a cliff-face the length of his nose or the style of his whiskers...
...them does the scene get far away from the parlor of a Gelsha house. Mr. Duran, with a literary cruelty seldom seen before, has represented as typical of the "Plays of Old Japan" a special type of drama, which is no more representative of Japanese life, than "The Easiest Way" or "Damaged Goods" are representative of the drama and life of the United States and France...