Word: simplest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greta Keller, a deep-voiced Viennese who like Mile Boyer brings a unique, personal quality to the simplest of songs, has made a record of "Eine kleine Reise," a song whose lyrics might not stand censoring...
...liquidity, solvency and strength of these four banks. Had every bank in New York and the U. S.-or even a considerable fraction of them-been managed with equal sagacity, the United States would not have been treated to last week's holiday spectacle. That was the simplest answer to the Aldrich blast. It was made not by a Morgan Partner but in one laconic and ironic sentence from the lips of Guaranty Trust's President William Chapman Potter: "My conscience is easy...
...upon French 2, and to a lesser degree French 1, as a valid and easy means of satisfying these. The result is an overcrowded course, presenting poorly organized and uninteresting material to a group of students whose only purpose in the course is meeting the language requirements in the simplest possible manner. Such a course does not belong in the Harvard curriculum...
Unfortunately, the sort of legacy which demands such special application is not limited to the library. There are numerous examples in other departments of the University. The Anthropology department is forced to do without even the simplest supplies for its students, while the Physics department can furnish each of twenty Freshman with an instrument valued at eighty dollars. Besides such minor cases, there are classic monstrosities like the Engineering School, which has been laboring for years in a morass of difficulties originating in the will which endowed...
Fingerpainting, the process's official name, was evolved by capable, burly Ruth Faison Shaw at her experimental school for British & U. S. children in Rome. Her primary interest was more therapeutic than artistic. She wanted to give her pupils the simplest and most direct method of self-expression to avoid the element of fear induced by tools that the child feels incapable of mastering. Spreading paint with the bare hands was an obvious idea but ordinary paints have obvious disadvantages. Fingerpaints, Miss Shaw's own invention, are made with harmless earth, pigments and a cold-creamy substance...