Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relaxed, but are actually inhibited so that they are slacker than when the finger is at rest. By such systematic studies he has made neurology a highly scientific, probably the most scientific and dependable, subdivision of Medicine. At 71, loaded with a dozen nations' honors, he is extraordinarily plain and humble. For avocation he writes poetry...
...records and announced that the price was the lowest recorded since 1852, four years after the Board of Trade was founded. Viewing the estimated North American surplus of 700,000,000 bu., economists predicted still lower prices. Where once $1 wheat was a bogey, 40? wheat seemed now a plain probability...
...Boylston Hall is a plain, granite building of the style of architecture generally devoted now to jails," according to an article published in Appleton's Magazine in 1870, now preserved in a collection of Harvard clippings maintained in the University Library. The author's praise is not all damning, however, for he goes on to say that "Memorial Hall will add a beautiful and unique feature to the architecture of Cambridge...
That recent years have brought a trend in this direction is plain. A large number of courses include only two lectures per week. The tutorial system, and more particularly the reading period, have emphasized the central importance of reading by the individual student, with supplementary comment in tutorial discussion and in lectures. It is the function of the lecturer, as of the tutor, to suggest what books should be read, and, once they are read, to give a critical interpretation of the material covered. There is no reason to assume that in every case the wealth of an instructor...
...venture itself gives the reasons for the new policy. Since the exhaustion of his cellar, Lampy's spirit has languished; now the basement is renovated, and the new policy affords' a meal ticket. The future of Lampy was predictable when that magazine first was mailed "wrapped in a plain cover", and the CRIMSON congratulates its old friend for submitting so gracefully to the slings of fortune; though the Lampoon has thus half sunk from its former estate, there will be no love lost because of it. There is all half to that noble company of Heliogabalus, Alice Foote MacDougall...