Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heavy industries have continued to lag and the jobless have waited in vain for the "Roosevelt Building Boom." It is not the habit of the Administration to acknowledge a violent shift in basic policy but last week certain things were said and done in Washington which made it quite plain that the Government's housing program was about to make a 180° turn...
John A. Thierry '36, of Cambridge, Mass., Francis J. Ulman '36, of Jamaica Plain, Mass., Cheves T. Walling '37, of Hubbard Woods, III., Hathaway Watson, Jr. '37, of Chicago, III., Charles I. Weir, Jr. '36, of Kew Gardens, L. I., N. Y., Harold T. White, Jr. '37, of Bedford Hills, N. Y., Joseph J. White, Jr. '37, of Winnetka, III., George W. Wickersham, 2d '35, of Cedarhurst, L. I., N. Y., Charles C. Wright '37, of Cambridge, Mass., William S. Zeman '36, of Hartford, Conn...
...sweltering summer drew to its close, it became plain that Mr. Roosevelt was finding that the ending to his story presented difficulties. People were beginning to feel that the government was spending millions with no carefully-constructed plan. They were laying labor unrest at the door of the NRA; higher food prices to the AAA. In short, recovery does not seem so sure a bet as it did a short time ago. What is more natural than that Harvard with its conservative leanings should take up its conservative leanings should take up its beliefs again...
...Sherwood Anderson at his silliest, but at others he gets nearer the gist of the matter than Anderson at his most inspired. Though Saroyan has a contempt for cleverness, literariness, his searching simplicity sometimes accomplishes cleverness' own job. Saroyan sometimes uses the impressionistic patter of his day, but plain readers will feel themselves most directly addressed in such straight words as these: "At three in the morning you are apt to come upon strange specimens of life, men made frightening by capitalism. They appear to be monsters, and merely to be in their presence horrifies; yet they speak English...
...Draft of XXX Cantos (TIME, March 20, 1933), by violent, obscure but famed Poet Ezra Loomis Pound, he did not expect it to land on a best-seller list. Acclaimed by many a critic and fellow-writer as foremost living U. S. poet, Pound is little conned by plain readers. But Publisher Farrar rightly considers him a feather in his cap, continues to publish him in the face of little comprehension, no popular applause...