Word: simplest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...observers did not forecast a close election. Because of these facts, the coalition of discontent welded last week when Pensioneer Townsend and Share-Our-Wealther Smith agreed to back Inflationist Lemke, go on a four-ring barnstorming tour with him and Inflationist Coughlin, aroused serious political speculation. Hardly the simplest-minded members of the Lemke-Coughlin-Smith-Townsend following could expect their votes to put North Dakota's Lemke in the White House. What they might do. what their New Deal-hating leaders passionately hoped they would do, was to put Franklin Roosevelt...
This small miracle was made possible, the engineers were soon told, because the "windshield" through which they looked was made of a recently developed material called Polaroid, and the headlight lenses were backed by plates of the same stuff. Polaroid polarizes light. Reduced to simplest terms, polarization is a process of "combing out" a beam of light so that it vibrates in one plane only. Laymen understand polarization more readily if they imagine that a beam of light, vibrating in all directions, is a flight of straws blown along helter-skelter by the wind. If the straws collide with...
...water in the Yard, not only at Commencement, but at all times, is so obvious as to need no discussion. Dr. Barney '00 and Professor Morison '08, are to be congratulated that largely through their efforts, the College has not installed a modern drinking fountain, which would be the simplest and most economical thing to do, but is placing as far as possible, a faithful replica of the old pump...
Though mine will undoubtedly be only one of many slightly admonitory responses to your article, it occurred to me that you might be interested to hear of a delightful, homely incident pertaining to the addition of one of the wittiest, simplest, most lovable of men to our mildly insane faculty...
...excuse for the way Representatives shirked their duty to study and debate that revolutionary document last fortnight (TIME, May 11). But when the session's second major measure-the $2,364,229,712.53 First Deficiency Bill-was reported out by the House Appropriations Committee last week, even the simplest-minded Congressman knew what it meant. It meant that WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins was going to get $1,425,000,000 to spend on relief in fiscal 1937 in just the way he will have spent about $1,600,000,000 this fiscal year. When the bill was brought...