Word: simpler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wrote simpler and more legible hands...
Dean Murdock expressed the hope that there would be in the future a more adequate center for the graduate students modeled after the House system, but somewhat simpler in nature. President Conant seconded him in this hope, saying, "We hope to have better material means for the furthering of acquaintanceship of the students in the Graduate School...
...stand against the opinion of practically the whole biological world." It was not that Dr. MacBride could not stomach the fundamental fact of organic evolution. Probably no sane biologist, and certainly none of Dr. MacBride's calibre, remains unconvinced that all complex forms of life have arisen from simpler organisms. It was the mode of evolution that Dr. MacBride disputed. He is an ardent Lamarckist, believing that certain acquired characteristics can be inherited. For that reason he sticks out like a heterodox thumb in Britain as Duke University's venerable Professor William McDougall does...
...simpler terms, U. S. citizens who favor a Socialist United States built by ballots are to be humored and cajoled into aiding Communists whose aim is to forge a Socialist Soviet United States by violence and bring it into the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Washington would then stand in the same relation to Moscow as Kiev which today is the obedient capital of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic...
...prosecution's explanation was simpler: Lois Thompson and her sister Lelia had cooked up the whole thing just for excitement. A Department of Justice agent testified that the handwriting on the extortion notes was Lelia's, held up enlarged specimens to prove it. Two of the jurors could not read or write, but with the rest they brought in a verdict of guilty, condemning Lois Thompson to 30 days in jail. Shortly thereafter Daniel Shaw, having quit Northeastern State Teachers College forever, was well out in the Pacific...