Word: simpler
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...remaining stories are simpler and more sincere. Despite rather cruder workmanship, Mr. Blaine produces an effective climax with a very timely setting. "The Story of Old Panama" is highly colored, remote, and romantic...
...other crews practised on the machines and took good runs to develop endurance. It is expected that a lane can be opened through the ice to the Newell Boat House for tomorrow's practice. If this can be done, it will be a much simpler matter to get the boats...
...fact that Nicolette looked forth from a tower and dropped by a cord to the earth below. Incidentally the cord in this procedure becomes a "thread of lustre" and Nicolette "a drop of radiance." The mediaeval romancer in his description of this episode had instincts which were truer because simpler. Though Mr. Cummings' imagination makes Swinburne's seem sluggish, the glimpse of any imagination whatever is too rare a joy to permit of cavil. Let us trust that this one may for a time be set to tend a Greek temple--or even to learn how Keats...
...first periods, her work had been confident and sensational. Her only score was made from the use of beautifully executed forward passes, two of them for 30 yards each being enough to score a touchdown. The versatility of her attack was in marked contrast to Harvard's faith in simpler plays of an ordinary sort...
...fitted to try for a prize. But how absurd this really is! Prizes are given to arouse interest in fields of study among those who presumably have not already mastered all the standard works available, and for this reason the subjects for prize essays are chosen from among the simpler topics. In many cases a general introductory course in a subject gives a man sufficient groundwork to enable him to do effective research in a prize contest, and this is a point which is very little realized. Of course the more study a man has given to a subject...