Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newly discovered fortress of Homolka, which has stood unknown and untenanted for some 4,000 years upon its isolated hill above the Bohemian plain in Central Europe, has lately been repopulated for a time by a group of American archaeologists, the members of the Central European Exedition of the Peabody Museum of Harvard and the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. The director of the expedition is Dr. V. J. Fewkes of the University of Pennsylvania, and the assistant director is R. W. Ehrich '30, of Harvard. The other members of the staff last season were H. L. Movius...
...trade, or a druggist displays a mixing bowl as a sign of his, so up in Franconia Notch God has hung out a sign to show that in New Hampshire he makes men." In the cool of many mornings after the sophistry of this remark becomes all too plain, but the kernel of truth that inspired it still remains. The Vagabond has just been up in the "lofty state" and will vouch for the truth. Most unfortunately he was called away suddenly to tutor a man in History 28 for an examination today, or he would have prolonged his stay...
...died. Rasmus carefully buried him and marked the grave with the upright skis. The finders of the body last week placed it on a sledge. Around and over the sledge they built a mausoleum of ice blocks. Then they went hunting for Rasmus. For a space his spoor was plain. From the grave he had wavered twelve miles toward the coast. He left his tent pegs there. Ten miles further on was the debris of a dog camp. Beyond, no signs...
Jennifer, like Ishbel MacDonald, was stocky, well-scrubbed, healthy, plain. Like Ishbel, Jennifer had a Famous Father, whose daily lookout she was, with no watches shared. Father, widowered and only-daughtered, was a famed novelist whose books were appreciated by the few, unread by the many, abhorred by the clergy. Jennifer and Father lived in London as in a sheltered treadmill: she ran the house, took his dictation, typed his manuscripts, chased from the quiet street the occasional catastrophe of an organ-grinder. Suddenly one day Father brought home a pretty young wife, several years younger than Jennifer. With...
William Benjamin Bacon, of Jamaica Plain...