Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ivan Murray Johnston, who took his Ph.D. in 1925, is a research associate at the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain. The problem of the dispersal of plants in the Western Hemisphere, and the manner in which plants in the western United States were transferred to Central America will occupy Dr. Johnston's time during the year that the Fellowship covers...
...events has the Democratic Party become that it can do nothing more than complain of betrayal. If Mr. Garner and his cohorts refuse further support to the Hoover Administration, they draw upon their heads blame for prolonging the depression. But if cooperation is continued it is perfectly plain that the Republicans are going to get all the credit for any benefit resulting from relief measures. Yet the Republicans will undoubtedly attribute continued depression to the attempted reconstruction measures of the Democrats, such as the Glass-Steagall Bill...
...York Times, it was announced yesterday by A. N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, in charge of the competition. The first prize is a cash award of $150 and a medal. J. S. Walker, Jr., of Yonkers, New York, and J. J. Ryan '33, of Jamaica Plain won second and third prizes respectively receiving $75 and $25 apiece...
...probably more general than any other state in the Union. It may be an accident, and again it may not. Of the five states that have contributed most to "Who's Who" three are New England states whose soils are so poor that luxuries are little known. If plain living makes strong men on the Vermont hillsides, it may do no harm to college boys. Chicago Tribune...
Many a bright British shilling landed in the tills of Albert Hall last week. Londoners who gathered there got more than their shilling's worth of fine music by a full, tail-coated orchestra, of plain & fancy singing by sopranos, mezzo-sopranos, coloratura-mezzo-sopranos, baritones, bassos. They also got, between numbers, a good view of what the concert's impresario, Henry Ford, had cannily got them there to see-his new "midget" automobile to compete with the little Austin and Morris...