"Miss Lennard, it will simplify matters considerably if I ask you a question.

But how wonderfully it would have simplified everything, and how much trouble and pain it would have saved to everybody, herself included, could she have died that night!

This simplified matters immensely, so Bill looked up his little doctor for a sociable visit.

WHAT THE STATESMAN IS UP AGAINST Under the terms of the democratic formula the problems of the statesman seem to become enormously simplified.

There were endless orders and details, whenever the monotonous regular diet was departed from; whereas the establishment of several regular diets, according to the classifications in the wards, would have simplified matters exceedingly.

Love affairs which had been somewhat complicated were simplified too abruptly by a rapid farewell, and a "God bless you, old girl. ...

For surely when once the self has made the great surrender, and becomes content to be nothing, that in St. Paul's words, "God may be all in all," the whole problem of life is infinitely simplified, in the sense that no farther degree of simplification is possible.

"Aye, to be sure; that simplifies the thing mightily.

The terms here are monstrously simplified, of course, but such a bird's-eye view lets us immediately take our bearings.

The Martials have two forms of writing: the one I have described, which is simply a mechanical rendering of spoken words into artificially simplified visible signs; the other, written by hand, with a fine pencil of some chemical material on a prepared surface, textile or metallic.