Word: simpler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with King Alexander of Yugoslavia at Marseille was the great French protagonist of a pact to end war in Eastern Europe by mutually guaranteeing all frontiers. This week Louis Barthou's successor. Foreign Minister Pierre Laval, must try to carry on. In French eyes no situation could be simpler: if Adolf Hitler is sincere in his peace protestations, then Der Reichsführer should sign the Eastern Locarno Pact; if Handsome Adolf is insincere, then there is all the more reason why Germany's neighbors should sign, encircling Deutschland with a cordon sanitaire...
Many a publisher gets out a school dictionary by the cheap and simple process of cutting down his big edition, condensing definitions, dropping illustrative sentences. The Thorndike-Century Dictionary is based on the reverse principle that children need simpler and fuller definitions than adults. From some 10,000,000 words which he read over a period of 17 years. Dr. Thorndike called out the 25,000 most common. Five years ago he began work on the definitions. Some he built around pictures, of which there are 1,800. Others he made up largely or wholly of illustrative sentences. When...
Removal of an infected gall bladder, which is inextricably fastened to the liver, is simpler with the electric knife. After Dr. Whitaker cuts away all loose parts of the gall bladder, he sears the remainder in its liver bed. Thus he effectively prevents damage to the liver, dangerous hemorrhage, and dripping of infectious material into the peritoneum...
Secondly, Mr. Chase writes an attack on science and a defense of humanism. This portion of his article will provide abundant material for what in simpler circles than those of Harvard undergraduates are called "bull sessions." "For after all," he writes, "facts, especially scientific facts, are the most untruthful things there are." That is going a bit further than Kant, though like Kant, Mr. Chase does find truths at last in moral judgments. Lord Bacon went wrong because, though he had a scientific education, he had no moral education. It is difficult here to avoid making a debater's point...
...officers of the Society have arbitrarily ruled out the simpler solution offered by Zionism in order to stimulate new thought on this controversial subject. Other solutions that will be suggested by the speakers are: a determined effort toward friendship and cordial relations toward conflicting minorities, greater homogeneity with the national community and perhaps assimilation...