Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Straightforward military technological improvement has proceeded apace in some fields, especially the speed and versatility of tanks, the accuracy of aerial bombing, the range and speed of airplanes. Yet the most effective innovation of the Spanish civil war was a crude anti-tank weapon- bottles of gasoline wrapped in burning rags which were hurled at Insurgent tanks by Loyalist infantry. And the record for long-distance artillery fire is still held by the monster guns with which, during World War I, the Germans shelled Paris from a wood 70-odd miles away...
...from Free Danzig, came Nazi "gangs" to provoke the alert Polish guards into brief scuffles from which four deaths resulted-extreme casualties of the war of nerves. At week's end the Polish radio, protesting that "the limit of Polish patience is very near," turned from straightforward reporting of developments to a satiric debunking of the provocative propaganda its people were hearing from over the border. One German radio report had it that a certain retired Polish Army captain had been leading forays against Germans in Poland. Polish officials investigated, found that the captain had been dead...
...remaining articles, the editors of the Guardian have done the members of the graduating class a service by publishing Dewayne Kreager's straightforward, clearcut discussion of the job possibilities offered by the Federal government field services. The editors have done a further service by printing Christian Lauritzen's prize-winning essay on "England's Moral Obligation" to France in 1914. When a student produces as good a Sophomore thesis as this, it is pleasing to see it win the recognition of publication
...Cathy's and Heathcliff's passion. Mr. Olivier is particularly good as the gypsy lover, catching all of that character's mysterious and dangerous attraction. Maturest entertainment to come out of Hollywood in some time, "Wuthering Heights" does not "aim to please"; it is substantial intellectual fare, a straightforward dramatization of a unique and overwhelmingly powerful story...
...children, they are punctual, straightforward, "good at memerizing, but talk about love affairs too early," ask silly questions about China, and "the way they play scares...