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there is not a sentence to guide the reader in interpreting it; there is not a single direct statement of what it is about, where its action takes place, what, in the simplest sense, it means...
...raid. Outside, Soochow Lane was jampacked with coolies toting vegetables to Shanghai's International Settlement, and fugitives toting babies, bedding, household goods to safety. Neither vegetables nor babies arrived. Suddenly a light bomber roared a hundred feet overhead, its machine gun working-then two more. Because the simplest horror is the most stunning-automatically "our feet take us" to look at heaped bodies on the road, on the barbed-wire barricades, or those still trying to crawl through...
...plan was both complicated and risky. In its simplest terms it was intended to work as follows: The Government will issue fiat money (paper without gold or silver backing) to pay the Heinkel works, say, for airplanes. Next year when Heinkel comes to pay corporation taxes, it pays not in cash but in the fiat certificates. Meanwhile Heinkel may, if it wishes, use the certificates to help pay for purchases of Duralumin, rivets, engine parts. In transactions other than tax payments certificates may never exceed 40% of the purchase price, the rest to be paid in cash. What the plan...
Hormone massage, concluded Dr. Foss in The Lancet last week, "is the simplest method of androgen [male hormone] therapy . . . is most acceptable to the patient who desires a maintenance dosage...
...skin of their teeth, on wind-pudding and small potatoes and few on a hill. They live by the weather and their wits. They come to sudden conclusions. They 'up and do things' that are for once and for all," as he describes them in his introduction. With the simplest of words and rhyme, Coffin attempts in this little volume to draw these folk, their acts, and lives that snuff out with a brief, "flourish of finality" pathetic in its inconspicuousness...