Word: simplest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week an angular young woman in black with an enormous white shawl collar gripped a microphone, spoke with warm, smiling emphasis to an assemblage of some 400 U. S. artists and six times as many followers of the arts. Of all speakers of the evening, Erika Mann had the simplest and to many listeners the most significant words to justify the second American Artists' Congress. They were a message from her father, Thomas Mann: "One frequently hears it said that the artist should stick to his own craft, and that he merely cheapens himself when he descends into...
Since, apparently, students like other people will not learn their lesson and drive slower at night when they're tired, keep they're hands off the wheel when they've been drinking, the simplest way out might appear to be to keep them from driving. That's what happened at Princeton after a whole series of crashes had so shocked the Nassau authorities that they removed the student's driving permission...
...simplest way out often proves the worst; for at Princeton the rule is flagrantly violated by boys who keep their cars in nearby towns; and if Princeton can't enforce the rule, how can Harvard, located in a big city, have an outside chance to do it? It would be impossible to keep students from putting their cars up in Boston or the suburbs, and from using the cars of friends who lived nearby and commuted into the Square...
...gave his complete support to the liberal policies of the University, including its maintenance of academic freedom under Presidents Eliot, Lowell, and Conant. In the counsels of the University he contributed a hard-headed common sense, often expressed in a picturesque vernacular, that presented issues in their clearest and simplest form and aided greatly in arriving at sound conclusions...
...Westbrook Pegler: "The case of Mr. Pegler, 'that peril to placidity.' is simplest of all. Peg was bitten by an income tax while still a boy a few years...