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...Nothing is more conducive to long-winded and stilted writing than the use of a formal, pedantic or polysyllabic substitute for the natural word or expression that first comes to mind. There will be occasions, relatively rare, when they will be wanted, quite legitimately, to convey a different shade of meaning. They should never be used simply because it is thought they sound more official, more formal more stylish or more impressive than their everyday equivalents...
Noted with dismay among the vagaries of the hurricane was its indiscriminate will in tearing down Harvard's shade trees but leaving the owl-eyed shack on Bow and Mt. Auburn without a scratch...
Feeder-line operation is an undeveloped field in the U.S. airline business. To keep it under control CAB wants to license only as many routes as the traffic will bear. In Colorado CAB must decide between applicants representing every shade of free enterprise, from well-heeled air lines to weathery, leathery extrovert ad venturers with shoestring capital. If licenses were granted to all, the West would be cobwebbed with airlines covering 190 cities...
...Barker's specifications: "absolutely free from dental caries [decay] ... sized, shaped and set true and properly in the dental arch . . . proper shade, colorings and translucence to blend perfectly with the surrounding gum tissue, the eyes, hair and complexion . . . perfect cusps, grooves, pits, fissures and marginal ridges...
...soldiers wore straw sandals, yellow and green shorts and shirts, and their heads were covered by crowns of leaves that gave shade from...