Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prosperity in this country as long as a large part of the population is on the verge of bankrupted. Throughout the latter half of our history there has been a shifting a labor away from agriculture, but the movement has not kept pace with the increase in production. The plain fact is that there are too many farmers and the only immediate solution of the problem is a reduction in hours of labor and hence in production...
...three Harvard men who died during the World War fighting on the side of the Central Powers was moved again yesterday to a more conspicuous place on the east wall of the Church proper. The new position is almost opposite the main entrance to the Church and is in plain sight of all in the Church...
What the Railway Labor Executives' Association would agree to was a continuation for another year of last year's Willard agreement-10% temporary deduction from the present basic pay scale (TIME, Feb. 8). In renewing the 1932 agreement, railway Labor wanted it made plain that while the pact was in operation, neither side was to apply to the Board of Mediation for revision of the basic scale...
...statement about the squash courts of the University Mr. Bingham admitted that the main problem was "a plain lack of courts." He does not refer to courts in the Houses, but to courts for members of the Graduate Schools and for those members of the College who do not live in the Houses. That there is a definite need for more squash courts for those members of the University who are not residents of the Houses is undoubtedly the case...
...following five men were elected to the Album Committee; Edward Hutchins Hickey, of Boston; Karl Adams, Jr., of Boston; Henry Hamilton Bissell, of Cambridge; Bradford Keyser Bachrach, of West Newton; and John James Ryan, of Jamaica Plain...