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London's Laborite Daily Herald said, that of all last week's royal awards, that to Miss Fields will give His Majesty's subjects "the widest, simplest pleasure...
...simplest terms the play is a struggle between a communist and a liberal or unreactionary conservative, as you prefer, for the possession ultimately of the world, intermediately of America, and immediately of a woman. A trifling playboy enters into the picture, too, but he is not an antagonist. It is not thought that he may inherit the earth some day. The best that can be said for him is said by the liberal: the latter is willing to gave even him, for his chivalry and his generosity, rather than see the communist triumph...
...minutes instead of hours or days. Designed by Engineer Harry C. Hart and others of the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, it is a complex but small and neat layout of generators with movable stators, potentiometers, gears, cams, rectifiers, amplifiers, etc. Reduced to simplest terms, a series of potentiometers (low-resistance voltmeters) is set to correspond to the coefficients of the equations to be solved. A second series is geared together in the ratio of squares, cubes and higher powers. All the roots of an eighth-degree equation can be obtained in a half hour...
...week an angular young woman in black with an enormous white shawl collar gripped a microphone, spoke with warm, smiling emphasis to an assemblage of some 400 U. S. artists and six times as many followers of the arts. Of all speakers of the evening, Erika Mann had the simplest and to many listeners the most significant words to justify the second American Artists' Congress. They were a message from her father, Thomas Mann: "One frequently hears it said that the artist should stick to his own craft, and that he merely cheapens himself when he descends into...
...simplest way out often proves the worst; for at Princeton the rule is flagrantly violated by boys who keep their cars in nearby towns; and if Princeton can't enforce the rule, how can Harvard, located in a big city, have an outside chance to do it? It would be impossible to keep students from putting their cars up in Boston or the suburbs, and from using the cars of friends who lived nearby and commuted into the Square...