Word: simpler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order to have your portrait painted by de Laszlo it is advisable to have a firm and masterful face if you are a man, an expression of graciously patrician elegance if you are a woman. This will make it simpler for Painter de Laszlo to inject these qualities into his portraiture, but they are by no means the only requirements for being a de Laszlo subject. You will also need $14,000 if you want a really first-rate product, full length, executed with all the Sargentesque splendor at his command. For $10,000 you can have a neat three...
...Soviet government is making every effort to discourage drinking," he said, "with the result that the country is coming rapidly to temperance." Instead of prohibition, the government takes the much simpler method of raising the price of vodka, and because of the peculiar economic system this method is effective...
...remaining figure is that of James Henry Rand Jr., 44, chairman and president of the company. Soon after he graduated from Harvard in 1908 he went into the business of making business simpler. One of the first companies he worked for was his father's Rand Co., Inc., producer of card index systems. In 1915 he and his father disagreed. He left the company, borrowed $10,000 from Uncle George F. Rand of Marine Trust Co. in Buffalo, formed American Kardex Co., a direct competitor of Rand Co. Ten years later Father & Son Rand were reconciled. They agreed that...
...said. ''First, an explanation based upon pure mathematics of certain things which Professor Einstein has also attempted to explain. My conclusions in certain respects differ from and to that extent tend to disprove the Einstein Theory. . . . My explanations of natural phenomena are not so involved as his. They are simpler, and when I am ready to make a full announcement it will be seen that I have proved my conclusions...
...over the opening date of spring is providing the Mathematics Department with a subject worthy of its wizard calculations. Most Harvard men have been so bewildered by the fertility of March in breeding April Hours that they have little spirit left for questions of chronology. It is so much simpler to concede Mr. Einstein a point and admit that the whole thing is purely relative...