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...boiled, into the inside. The Allies caught on to this trick; but 25 years after, in World War II, the Germans were still using the boiled-egg device. The British, on the other hand, depended so much on their brilliant powers of improvisation that they often neglected the simplest details. Pinto, who used to inspect British agents before they were parachuted into enemy territory, was pained to find one of them wearing a tie labeled: "Selfridges, Oxford Street, London...
...hundreds of Egyptian villages, such stories from Akhbar el Yom are read by one literate person to dozens of illiterates who gather around in regularly formed groups called "reading rings." The papers are understandable to even the simplest fellah because the Amins and their staff have developed a clear, simple Arabic style that is already being imitated all over the Middle East. They live up to their boast that "Akhbar el Yom helps you" by supplying free legal help to readers, and pay their staff the highest newspaper wages in the Middle East...
...five years, Louis worked on his code, translating every letter into the simplest possible cluster of dots. He also invented a special stylus and slate with which the blind could write, started working on a system of musical and mathematical notation. Meanwhile, tapping his way about "in the dark hours and crooked passages," he began teaching his method to his own pupils...
...also changed in other ways. At twelve he had been a stiff, lonely boy who lived in a big, cold house with no one except his retinue of chamberlains and servants to keep him company. Wherever he went the chamberlains followed, and he seemed unable to make the simplest decision without consulting them. To straightforward Mrs. Vining, that was no way for a boy to grow up, and she decided to do something about...
...graph is one of the easiest ways to explain a difficult economic or social concept, probably far better than a thousand word essay on the subject. And at the same time, no one, least of all a professor, likes to admit that he doesn't understand a graph, the simplest way to explain anything. The net result of it all is that the "graph for all occasions," embellished with Greek letters and surrounded by a scholarly essay, permits you to "prove" all kinds of things which you know are true, but couldn't possibly prove without having done the work...