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...evacuate the Cologne bridgehead area or not to evacuate the Cologne bridgehead area? That was the question, reduced to its simplest expression, which was to the fore in France, Britain and Germany; the rest of the world was an interested spectator...
...commons, a strong dislike to being herded together and forced to eat poor food, gradually drove the students to eating in public taverns. The attempts of the authorities to enforce the rules soon aroused the students to active revolts in which they met force with force. The simplest and most popular expression of disapproval of the food consisted in impromptu bombardments, when the offending meats, ples, and puddings were hurled about the room, followed, in the more acute manifestations, by the table ware and utensils...
...rhythm, and he amended his definition to include it. But Signor Croce stands upon his knife-edge distinction, and is not at all daunted by the necessity of calling de Maupassant a poet. The practical value of his theory is very doubtful. If one could overlook all but the simplest facts, as Signor Croce has done, that would certainly make matters much easier, but it would hardly solve complexities...
Other parents, other professors read How About the College? by Edward W. Bok (self-educated) in the Saturday Evening Post for Sept. 13. Said Mr. Bok: " 'Is a college education preferable?' Of course the simplest answer here is that anything calculated for our good is more desirable in its presence than in its absence. Unfortunately, however, this does not answer the question. ... I like the story told of the young Polish girl in a New York school who was asked to write the dif- ference between an educated man and an intelligent man, and who summed...
Looping is one of the simplest airplane maneuvers. The pilot dives his ship steeply towards the earth and gains tremendous speed. He then turns his elevator or horizontal up, so that the rush of air bears downward on the tail of his plane. Naturally the nose of the ship goes up, the plane climbs, the nose goes lighter and higher and for a brief moment of time the ship is flying upside down, only to dive again and resume its normal attitude. When correctly executed, the loop is seen as a beautiful, smooth curve...