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Word: simplest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Unraveled | 4/20/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Story Of An Experiment: Facts a la Tartare | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHIONS: The New Old Look | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Say It Simply | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 9, 1948 | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

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