Word: simplest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which issue silver thunderbolts. Before it is released this week or next the final drawings will be submitted to a commercial artist for advice. The firm's own designers, says Mr. Rabkin, get so wrought up over each new creation that they are totally unable to see the simplest flaws...
Searching for signs of hope, Dr. Schweitzer concluded that there is no other remedy for present-day ills than the ethics of Jesus which, reduced to simplest terms, is "reverence for all life." Said he: "We wander in darkness now, but one with another we all have the conviction that we are advancing to the light...
...fanciest title belongs to the simplest canvas: Skull and Its Lyrical Appendage Leaning on a Night Table Which Has the Temperature of a Cardinal Bird's Nest. An elongated grand piano is flying off into the air. The keyboard runs earthward into a heart-shaped skull which is indeed leaning on a night table. Sharp eyes can find the cardinal bird, but there is no nest...
...history did more to shape the national mind. Many owed to those books a love for good reading. The simplest virtues, enforced by attractive tables and essays, sphorisms and short quotations, helped to form the character of the school children of three generations. That 20,000 were present recently at the dedication of the memorial to William Holmes McGuffey on the farm in western Pennsylvania where he was born is an eloquent testimonial to the worth of his work. Henry Ford honored himself and rendered a public service in promoting the project...
...Author- Called Sweden's foremost explorer, "the modern Marco Polo," Dr. Sven Anders Hedin got his start 49 years ago as tutor with a family in Baku on the Caspian, has been prowling Central Asia almost continuously ever since. Expert hydrographer and cartographer, he carries only the simplest instruments on his expeditions, depends largely on the measured stride of his riding camel for computing distances. For Chicago's Century of Progress he directed the reproduction of Jehol's "Golden Pavilion." Short, bland, unmarried and 69, Explorer Hedin is now completing a railroad survey for China...