Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Obviously, in a close election, as this was, a man receiving a large number of fifth choices would poll a poorer vote than if each fifth vote received as much consideration as a first choice. It is also plain that a candidate receiving numerous second and third votes would be elected rather than a nominee polling a few first and a numerous number of last choices. When the Senior Class is under the apprehension that it is balloting under the preferential system, it may use, if it wishes, the first choice for candidates whom it believes to be weak, with...
...rumored that the plain stone which is just above "Tutor's Arch" will shortly be graven with some appropriate sentiment, but that those responsible are in difficulties as to a wise choice...
Unable to arouse C.R. Apted '03, superintendent of care takers. The officers summoned the watchman of the Business School who secured the building. Plain clothesman Frank White, after a search of the premises, declared nothing had been lost...
...Frank Gilchrist '32, Wilmette, Ill.; W. A. Huppuch '33, Glens Falls, N. Y.; Richard Inglis '33. So, Euclid, O.; D. D. Lloyd '31, Plainfield, N. J.; E. L. Popper '32, N. Y. C.; E. S. Randall '33, Rockland; Joseph Rauh, Jr. '32, Cincinnati; R. S. Shuman '31, Jamaica Plain; R. W. Vilter '33, Cincinnati, O.; James Wallerstein '32, White Plains...
...burning locomotives, horse-racing, prizefights, pioneers, Prohibition propaganda, baseball, domestic scenes, deathbeds of the Presidents, etc., etc. Now collectors' items, one Currier & Ives print (The Life of a Hunter-A Tight Fix) has brought $3,000. Though many of the prints were colored, they came off the presses plain, went to a great centre table where women workers added blues, reds, greens with lavish brushes. The 32 reproductions in this book give a good cross-section of the more than 4,000 subjects. Says Colyumist Grouse: "Now no one who owns the prints would think of hiding them. Indeed...