Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before they are incorporated in the booklet to be issued next year, the parietal rules should be revised to make quite plain that in the granting of permission to entertain woman guests, the Masters and Tutors have complete discretion. The Masters themselves, in addition, should abolish the rule requiring twenty-four hours notice before women guests may be brought into the House. That rule is a minor nuisance which frequently becomes a major embarrassment when guests arrive unexpectedly...
...justly ours and we will stand by it. We are peaceful and peace-loving people. We need peace more than any other country in the whole world. Nevertheless, if a war-and I am speaking now not as an official person (for I'm a plain citizen now, I hold no official position)-if a war should be thrust upon us by formal declaration or by surprise we shall defend ourselves...
Senate Democrats under Arkansas' Robinson brought forth their first party plan for direct Federal aid to plain citizens. It was endorsed by such men as Alfred Emanuel Smith, Owen D. Young, Bernard Mannes Baruch. The plan: 1) raise $2,300,000,000 by a U. S. bond sale...
Although the order for soft coal came to 18,000 tons, the hard coal was limited to 6,000 tons, which cost $80,000, but this reduction was taken advantage of by the Marine Research Laboratory, when it proceeded to file a report for 10 dozen Squalers, large plain, at a cost of $110. In one of the folders, which were revealed when the cabinets were opened, was the record for one skeleton of a bullfrog in a glass case at $15, while, at the same time, the Medical School sent in its inventory containing an item...
...struck by the same underlying conflictions between ideals and actual practice which are equally evident in this country to an intelligent foreigner. The book is entirely devoid of journalism and journalistic prose, and is full of useful scholarship, and delicate pleasant writing, all quite different in tone from plain-spoken, all-embrasive, panoramic articles on nations such as appear in the New York Times Magazine...