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Word: simplest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...investigation it will be guided by three basic questions: (1) Does the grade system perform a necessary educational function? (2) What effect on the student's work in a course does the preparation for hour exams and mid-term papers have and (3) what, if any, is the simplest, most inexpensive grading system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Buck Postpones Decision on Grades System Until April 1 | 1/8/1948 | See Source »

Most of Lorca's poems were composed in the simplest Spanish verse, about basic Spanish emotions - love, pride and the awareness of death-and were meant to be sung to the guitar. For years he disliked to have them printed. Many of them were - and still are - sung by people who never saw them in print and could not read them if they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death at Daybreak | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...which Council supervised elections are conducted. the men who actually supervised the election were "victims of the system." Final responsibility for permitting conditions under which such a thing could happen must be placed on the attitude of the Council as a whole, which has failed to follow the simplest and most obvious recommendations of its own Committee on class Affairs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smoker Joker | 12/18/1947 | See Source »

...first six weeks of Independence, about half as many Indians were killed as Americans died during nearly four years of the second World War. There is still no possible numbering of the wounded and the mutilated who survived, or of those who must yet die for lack of the simplest medical facilities, or of so much as a roof over their heads. It is unbearable, and unwise as well, to cherish memory of the bestial atrocities which have been perpetrated by Moslem and Sikh and Hindu alike. It is beyond human competence to conceive, far less to endure the thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA-PAKISTAN: The Trial of Kali | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

Theoretical consequences might be enormous. The hydrogen atom, with its single proton and single electron, is the simplest atomic structure. It is therefore the starting point for investigation of the fundamental mysteries of matter. The atoms of other elements are more complicated, but presumably their constituent particles follow the same basic laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Criticism | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

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