Word: simpler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that he got his big idea. In classroom after classroom, he had seen children laboriously copying off spelling drills from the blackboard. From his own experience, he knew that the teacher had probably spent hours thinking up the exercises. W.P. began to wonder whether there might not be a simpler way to carry on the drill...
...excellent state of preservation; other bodies, although skeletons, were still held together by their ligaments. How were the bodies preserved? The experts disagreed. Some attributed the mummification to the climate, others to some unknown process of embalming, probably of Moorish or perhaps even Egyptian origin. The nuns had a simpler explanation. Said Sister Blanca: "They were all saints. Their bodies could not decay...
...interest to the students was stated as the prime consideration. The humor, which was to be different from that of any present College publication, was described by Shafer as an attempt to get away from the Lampoon style. The poetry was "definitely not to be esoteric," but on a simpler plane...
Pondering a bit after last Saturday's 31 to 6 loss to Holy Cross, Coach Henry Lamar of the Yardlings has shifted his backfield around a bit, and has decided to use a simpler series of plays...
What did Scottie Wilson want? He gave a simpler answer than any vouchsafed by the Kafkas and Sartres. Burred Scottie: "I don't mind as long as I've got enough money for a few cigarettes and me kippers. Money doesn't matter to me. The only reason I'd like to have any is so that I could make people happy. I'd like to give my pictures away to people who really like them...