Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horses, camels and sheep to ride toward the great Lama Temple at Bathahalak, 100 mi. north of Kweihwa. In a little valley they found it, an exquisite cluster of white Manchu buildings, gold-crested pinnacles, infested by bearded monks. They set up their fur yurts (tents) on the plain, capped themselves with full-dress peacock plumes and crowded into the council chamber. There under a portrait of the Panchen Lama sat Prince Teh Wang who for months has been trying to found a Pan-Mongolian self-rule movement. Despite their traditional suspicions of one another, Prince Teh Wang last week...
...LIMITATIONS OF SCIENCE-]. W. N. Sullivan-Viking ($2.75). Many plain men are puzzled, irritated or tantalized about Science and would like to know what it is up to. But scientists in general, their noses close to their peculiar grindstones, either have no interest in showing visitors through the mill or talk such a Hottentot lingo of pure mathematics that the plain man can make no sense of it. If it were not for such bilingual scientists as Bertrand Russell, James Jeans, Arthur Eddington, J. B. S. Haldane, the flimsy bridge between modern science and modern life would be made...
...really thorough training in a high school has become extremely difficult for the student, encumbered as he is with extra-curricular activities and business and vocational courses. While no one would advocate a return to Jesuitical methods, which make a wearing drudgery out of school, it is surely plain that the swing to the opposite extreme has been excessive. Education in the humanistic sense has become an anachronism in the American school. The chief reason for this state of affairs must rest with Teachers College of Columbia University and its disciples; it is a powerful directive force, and its main...
...Lady For A Day," the featured picture at the University, blazons forth its moderate virtues through the medium of a cast of minor stars and just plain minors. Its plot is one of the usual far-fetched affairs, which are so extremely improbable that one is willing to over-look analysis and confine himself to a sort of comatose reception of stimuli: it deals with the harrowing experiences of old Apple Annie, who, poverty-stricken in New York, has been keeping her daughter in Europe in the belief that her mother is a fancy lady, of the haut monde...
...Love" and other local color books we get a good picture of that eccentric zealot, the assistant managerial or plain managerial candidate. He is content, especially if he is a kudos-seeking Freshman, to forego his "inner check" and become perhaps even weird in his sense of the power and the glory of the H.A.A. So the antics of one of these flunkies in trying to bar Mr. Bingham from penetrating the Soldiers Field barricade to watch his own Freshman football team surprises us not. But too much discipline is a dangerous thing...