Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...International Settlements at Basle, Switzerland has been strewn every day for nearly three weeks with shiny leather portfolios, smudgy glass ashtrays, trim boxes of bank pins, glass wells full of purple and red ink, blotters with round bottoms like a child's tumble-toy, glass-stoppered carafes full of plain water and, in neat piles, hundreds of sheets of foolscap (see cut). Thus equipped the 14 men around the table (twelve august finance experts, two alert interpreters) have been toiling and quarreling as the Young Plan Advisory Committee on Germany's capacity-to-pay (TIME, Dec. 21). Last week they...
...Presbyterian Advance have also come offers of money "which, if accepted, would make impossible the continuance of The Advance as an independent paper." The issue last week seemed plain...
...usual the new Congress was charged by impatient critics with being local-minded, stubborn, dilatory. Such criticism sprang from the plain fact that its members, by and large, manifested a strong nationalist spirit as opposed to the internationalism of the times. For months President Hoover has been watching Europe intently, offering it a helping hand while Senators and Congressmen have been at home among their people, their eyes turned inward on the U. S., not outward on the world. They know, perhaps better than the man in the White House, what citizens are saying, thinking, feeling. Now back...
Maamme! Maamme! Our Fatherland! Oh, sacred word sound high! As on our fathers' soil we stand, No hill nor vale, nor sunny strand, Nor fertile plain 'neath southern sky Can with our bleak North...
...language is plain...