Word: simplest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally, the Student Government has been wise in announcing a clear-cut policy on tallying the votes, making it plain that only the activities fee issue will be forced to reach the total majority requirement for a final decision. The Student Government has provided lucid directions; the simplest measure of compliance by the Radcliffe student body will settle three troublesome questions this spring...
...facts" about the simplest news event-say, an automobile accident-would (if anybody were fool enough to collect them) fill a library: the metallurgical engineer's report, the traffic expert's report, the highway engineer's report, the psychiatrist's report, the oculist's report, etc.-and they would contradict each other. "All the facts" relevant to more complex events, such as the devaluation of the franc, are infinite; they can't be assembled and could not be understood if they were. The shortest or the longest news story is the result of selection...
...skirts, Paris prices were up (25 to 50%). Molyneux, who had tried to keep his prices down for the benefit of his big, pound-pinched British trade, asked 54,000 francs ($176 at the new free exchange rate) for a simple black afternoon dress, while Dior's simplest day dress was 62,000 francs ($202). But materials were finally getting back to prewar standards. Sighed Molyneux's directress: "So marvelous to know the customers won't come back screaming the day after a heavy rain...
...stories for a year. Last week, the A.P. professed to see an improvement, but was still finding plain English hard to write. In a memo to the staff, Assistant General Manager Alan Gould wrote: "Too frequently it seems that we contrive the hardest way to say some of the simplest things...
...most intimate friends were invited for services at our home. An urn containing his ashes stood upon the mantel, partly concealed by flowers. A string quartette played softly in another room-not by hymns but music which he himself had loved. A clergyman performed his offices in the briefest, simplest manner. Two of my father's most intimate friends spoke their own intimate words. The "funeral" was over. We passed tea and cakes. . . . Net cost - everything: $90. . . . Pagan? Who says so? HENRY E. BREDEMEIER Kenmore...