Simplify

Examples

• There have been several attempts to simplify the Chinese writing and to adopt an alphabetical system. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To lighten the camera burden, and to simplify the various photographic processes, were the problems that confronted the American inventor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The inventor was striving to simplify the machine, but to what extent it had been used or had been improved, or what finally became of it, does not appear. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He asked me a great many questions about the instruments and his system, and I showed him how he could simplify things generally. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I may simplify too much--but you'll warn me if I do. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• To simplify his fishing expeditions he made a model of a boat propelled by paddles, and later he built such a boat and used it on the Conestoga River. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Then that will simplify matters. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Recourse to the primitive may furnish the fundamental elements of the present situation in immensely simplified form. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The first office of the social organ we call the school is to provide a simplified environment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Hackworth also improved the steam blast, put on the bell, and greatly simplified and modernized the appearance of the locomotive. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Almost all social prediction is catastrophic and absurdly simplified. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• A simplified form of the Lindé apparatus is seen in Fig. 300. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Writing and reading had been simplified down to a point when it was no longer possible to make a cult and mystery of them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We are camped near Temnin-el-Foka--a name which the boys have simplified a good deal, for the sake of convenience in spelling. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The Lake system greatly simplifies the work of search for sunken ships, the vessels being able in a few hours’ time to search over regions which would have taken months in the old method. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Opposition, even of the most strenuous order, has never been able to retard for long the use of an invention that simplifies industry. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• You see, remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of the house, this marriage rather simplifies matters. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Selection aims not only at simplifying but at weeding out what is undesirable. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

Typist: Lucas