Word: simpler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oscillating motions. Ever since the 18th Century mathematicians have occupied themselves with the hypothetical case of an infinite piece of string. In how many ways could such a string vibrate? Today the problem has taken a more practical turn. Mathematicians want to separate complex waves and oscillations into simpler movements. Chief use for harmonic analysis is study of the problems presented by the whirls and eddies of air around airplane wings. For example, harmonic analysis makes it possible to measure the varying speed at different points in a wind tunnel, to plot these speeds on a graph and reduce complicated...
...main narrative is much simpler-the story of six seamen aboard a tramp schooner bound from Norway to Newfoundland, with a couple of months ashore in Iceland, where the captain is laid up with pneumonia...
...would be simpler to call him Mercury...
...simpler scheme than Miss Thompson's for getting Jews out of Germany, and one already in use has been discovered by German Jews themselves. Every day dozens of Jews file into U. S. consulates and offices of U. S. firms to pore over New York City and Chicago city directories. From these they copy addresses of U. S. Jews to whom they might be related, hoping that letters to the U. S. will bring new-found relatives and sympathizers willing to arrange their passage...
...that followed her brilliant performance in the Northern Ohio Debating League, was cut out for trouble. Not entirely given over to girlish recollections, My Sister Eileen is weakest when it approaches slapstick, as in accounts of Father McKenney's washing-machine business; funniest when Author McKenney recalls the simpler sides of old Ohio life-newspaper serials, silent movies, road shows, music lessons, the tangled plots and intrigues that flourished in girls' camps and high schools...