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...stories hard to read? Too many long sentences and too many Latin words. Irt Flesch's "standard" writing (i.e., "what the average American will read with ease and interest"), a sentence should contain not more than 19 words; 100 words not more than 150 syllables. A readable story should also contain at least 6% "personal" words (names and personal pronouns) and 12% "personal" sentences (questions, commands, requests...
...steady stream of reports on German research has flowed into U.S. industry. Last week the Office of Technical Services offered more such "reparations": microfilms of documents prepared by German scientists themselves. Packed with detailed drawings, research results, minutes of technical meetings, the microfilms contain the compressed know-how of Germany's famed and closemouthed industries. Eventually they will cover the whole range of German research, from synthetic fuels to plastic dental fillings. Price of the first film (wartime developments in aluminum processing...
...ancients are wrapped, not in the mud, but in the deeper mystery of a still-untranslated language. The big-nosed Hittites (Sons of Heth in the Bible), who dominated Asia Minor from earliest biblical times, left stone-cut inscriptions so numerous and so lengthy that they seemed likely to contain plenty of ancient history. But since the diggers lacked a key to the stiff hieroglyphic characters, all they could do was bite their learned nails and hope that a key stone would turn up eventually...
Right now the Laffmovie is showing among other delicacies, a cartoon about a sneezing weasel and a Buster Keaton classic, vintage 1934. The former does, however, contain some modern verse. There are two lines...
Make Mine Manhattan is probably the first revue in years to contain more good sketches than bad ones. One of them takes drama critics over the jumps, another rides Hollywood producers in Manhattan, a third royally kids Rodgers & Hammerstein's Allegro...