Word: easier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joseph Stalin had much to celebrate; he also had much to remember. When he was born, the son of a drunken Georgian shoemaker and his peasant wife, Queen Victoria was on the throne, Karl Marx was a penniless scribbler, and the world seemed to find it a good deal easier to tell the difference between right & wrong than it does today. Stalin built an empire of a kind that Victoria could not have visualized even in her nightmares; he forged Marx's foggy philosophy into an iron knife with which to carve the earth; and he swamped mankind with...
...longer the editorial," wrote Grimes, "the fewer the readers . . . It is much easier to write a long editorial on a single subject than two very short ones on two subjects...
Hugh Nawn, one of the juniors on the starting combination is small for a squash player, not having the long arms which make difficult returns easier. Coach Barnaby, however, has described his game as "quick, clever and artful," and believes that his speed makes up for his size. Nawn will play in the number two position...
...draw from (the 30's) most valuable lessons. One of them is that it should be easier to avoid a depression than to cure it. Continuous watching and suitable remedial action is possible and lies within the province of the President's Economic Council and the Joint Committee of Congress. It remains to be seen whether those bodies will act on the basis of short-sighted, political expediency or will address themselves to the serious task assigned to them...
Browsing around the Square, with an eye out for anything interesting, may be an easier way out. The Krockodiloes album, a book of Abner Dean or Charles Adams cartoons are pretty good possibilities...