Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First air-wedding to be recorded, few years later, was that of a young Belgian aeronaut, Georges Raoul Thiel, and Madeleine Bailly. Their balloon, a primitive affair composed of gasbag and plain square basket, was named Lime de Miel ("Honeymoon"). The Thiels were married by the Brussels burgomeister in the public square, then cast off in the Lime de Miel to sail over the countryside, landing prettily in a cow pasture a few miles away...
...provisions of the law for double assessment are plainly stated. Mrs. Couzens and I believe that the moral obligation is plain and we do not desire to avail ourselves of any technical or other reasons for not paying the assessment...
...subtlety that the press was firmly won over to a commitment which it is now almost impossible to renounce. It will be some time yet before the full significance of what has happened since March will be realized. N.I.R.A. has teeth. Papers and even radical journals have abandoned plain speaking and not only because circulation would drop. The administration which one no longer thinks of as democratic but rather as Roosevelt has been granted powers which exceed those of war time...
Where the meters show a level plain or plateau of hidden rocks the air will be lightly and uniformly ionized over large areas and there will be practically no cloud-to-earth lightning flashes. But where the underground profile is jagged with peaks and valleys, the irregular ionic counterparts in the air induce lightning to crash down the ionic ladders...
...clicking on the walk like little hammers. When there is something shining and invisible in the air over the Stadium, the Vegabond feels as if he were walking on tiptoe. In the gray winter twilight there is the ring of steel on ice and urchins skating, and when the plain of the river is windy in March, and the white birches look naked in the light of the riding moon, the Vagabond walks and thinks in inscrutable things. He may even break into a run if the night is cool and laugh when the wind snatches his hair and makes...