Word: straightforward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marine Insurance Certificates" is an article by Philip W. Thayer, research assistant, Institute of Criminal Law. In this discussion there is a straightforward account of the topic bringing up several new sides of the question...
...Lords of Creation concentrates principally on the change from a laissez-faire economy to one dominated by gigantic trusts, but is studded with brief characterizations of the leading financiers of the period and enlivened with colorful items of unfamiliar information. The result is an uneven book, a straightforward narrative of speculative adventures in the sections dealing with the early years, which grows increasingly vague and general when it runs into post-War prosperity and depression. To characterize the early period Author Allen describes the Harriman-Hill battle over the Northern Pacific that created a panic in 1901; the collapse...
...Rodney Whitney, longtime (1900-32) head of General Electric Co.'s research laboratories at Schenectady, N. Y., used to say: "I would rather teach than be President." His tradition of free inquiry continues. Consequently by no means all the bulletins that emanate from Schenectady have to do with straightforward improvements in electrical equipment. Lately GE announced a garbage-grinder which would simplify removal of "kitchen waste" by flushing it, chopped fine, down the sink drain. Even farther removed from the usual run of industrial research was last week's report that from GE's laboratories had emerged...
...critical opinion when it said: "On the interpretative side Miss Moore had no vocal style to rank with those of her illustrious predecessors. . . . The ends of her phrases were apt to be untidy. ... In appearance she made a charming and credible figure of Mimi and her acting was straightforward, though it was addressed too much to the audience and on that account not as moving as it might have been...
...order to find out what sport you are talking about. I notice with approval that when you find that you have missed an event by a week or so, you do not try to cover yourself up by saying that the event took place "yesterday" but adopt the straightforward method of saying that it took place "recently." J. Reginald Burlingame...