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...rationale behind the "graph for all occasions" is quite simple. In recent years it has become almost a truism that a graph is one of the easiest ways to explain a difficult economic or social concept, probably far better than a thousand word essay on the subject. And at the same time, no one, least of all a professor, likes to admit that he doesn't understand a graph, the simplest way to explain anything. The net result of it all is that the "graph for all occasions," embellished with Greek letters and surrounded by a scholarly essay, permits...
...that Skinner is unable to experiment directly on human beings, because this would be the easiest way to silence his critics. But society would frown on anyone who stuck babies in a cage and moulded their behavior in set patterns, or observed their actions when deprived of food and water. Skinner believes, however, that he can perform less damaging experiments with the feeble-minded. "They wouldn't be hurt at all. They would probably benefit from the studies...
...Fencing practice is a grueling two-hour workout-for in the Olympic pentathlon, usually with some 50 men competing, the fencers must all meet one another in tense touch-and-out matches. Troy tops off his squad's work day with about an hour of cross-country, the easiest of the five sports to teach and learn. ("You just have to get out there...
...Republican Club was represented by 12 members who each collected the necessary sum. According to one of them, Roger Moore '53, "The people they had to speak (Nixon, news commentator Robert Montgomery, Senators Saltonstall and Lodge) represent the branch of the G.O.P. which the H.Y.R.C. has always found the easiest to support...
...Warner Guiss (rhymes with mice). If all the victims could be brought to the operating table promptly, 25 times as many could be saved. The blame for the present high death rate, Dr. Guiss believes, is threefold: 1) cancer education has focused too much on the forms that are easiest to detect, 2) people go around for months with severe stomach symptoms before they see a doctor, 3) doctors are so discouraged by the poor outlook for stomach cancer patients that they do not prod them hard enough to accept early surgery...