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...this sort of thing is unnecessary, if not a bit absurd, when there are any number of ways to eliminate it. The simple expedient of a sign erected for vehicles coming up Plympton street would serve admirably. What could be simpler: all north bound traffic mush come to a full stop before crossing Mount Auburn Street. This method is used successfully in many large cities, and requires only some boards, paint, and a not too lethargic police department to put it into operation. David N. Scoll...
...Haven Journal-Courier: "The idea advanced by the Harvard CRIMSON in its editorial columns, that intercollegiate football be taken out of the sphere into which it has been carried by the commercial spirit and be restored to its simpler condition of forty years ago, is approved, as we take it, by the Yale Daily News. . . . Harvard and Yale are headed in the right direction...
...poet that ever lived delighted in amassing such curious, half-forgotten sounds; not even Francis Thompson had so great a vocabulary of rare and archaic terms. . . . The explanation here is simpler. Nathalia collects words the way a boy of her age collects postage stamps; she had thumbed Noah Webster's work (in various editions) and made a glossary of her own. The dictionary is her playbox and she knows exactly where every odd toy is concealed...
...these figures, 1925 exports have been adjusted to 1913 values, so as to make the comparison simpler and more direct...
...pump, the tubes, the indicator -all part of his new electric device for blood transfusion-were getting their first demonstration. The ordinary transfusion is complicated and requires the concentrated attention of several people. The new method is quicker, simpler, easier. In five minutes the seller, minus several gills of blood, was speeding away with his money in his pocket, and poor Mae Wahl was sitting up in bed. Soon she would have a patch of red in each meagre cheek...