Word: straightforward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side-splitting to bystanders. Of such calibre was the hoax attempted against some Freshmen this week. To receive notice that he has contracted a social disease is not a laughing matter to a young man especially when the notice appears to come from a scource as business-like and straightforward as the Hygiene Department. It is too likely to be taken seriously, and the ensuing worry and doubt, bad enough at any time, might prove fatal to scholastic standing during hour examination period...
...author denies that he gets any pleasure out of making public addresses, but he does so frequently and the book is for the most part a collection of such talks delivered during the past several years. Other chapters are essays originally printed in magazines. Some of the material is straightforward anthropological exposition: descriptions of such famed forerunners of Homo sapiens as Peking Man, Piltdown Man and Pithecanthropus erectus, and of the confused state of anthropological opinion about them...
...such symbological catch-alls confuse the book's shorter poems. They are mostly straightforward recordings of what Poet-Prophet Jeffers sees and feels when he looks around him in A.D. 1937. Samples...
...reminded the Fifth International Congress of Radiology in Chicago that Massachusetts Institute of Technology has a 5,000,000-volt generator which could be adapted for X-ray work, told them that an experimental 10,000,000-volt generator exists, promised them that "it would be a perfectly straightforward engineering and manufacturing job to build one for several times this voltage...
Against this background Philip's virtues were bound to make a brilliant showing. Possessed of great personal grace, gentle, straightforward, courageous, scholarly, witty, accomplished at tennis, dancing, horsemanship, his only imperfection appears not yet to have been discovered. Traveling abroad between the ages of 17 and 20, young Sidney captivated royalty, diplomats, scholars; the only criticism voiced was that he drank too much water, ate too much fresh fruit. In Paris, as guest of Francis Walsingham (later head of England's unexampled secret service, and Philip's future father-in-law) Philip witnessed the slaughter...