Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week. Original investigation occurred three years ago. Reasons for extravagance: 1) the family wants to show respect, satisfy conventions, or "impress the neighbors"; 2) the funeral industry is wasteful and unorganized. Funerals cost least in the South, most in the East. Cheapest are Orthodox Jewish funerals (a pit, a plain, loose casing), average cost...
...some mathematicians, like Jeans, are bilingual, can also make themselves understood in fairly plain English. Cautious, Jeans concepts does can not be admit that translated; math says the most you can do is to talk in analogies that must not be taken too literally. "A scientific study of the action of the uni verse appears to have been designed by a pure mathematician. . . . The universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine...
...Author. Sir James Hopwood Jeans, 53, onetime (1905-09) professor of Applied Mathematics at Princeton, Research Associate of Mt. Wilson Observatory, sitter in many a mathematical chair, holder of many a scientific medal, has written numerous mathematical, astronomical treatises, one other book telling the plain man what science is up to: The Universe Around...
...glad, Mr. President, that you referred to the fact-that the declarations made by the British sovereign and statesmen "from time to time" have been "plain. ..." I must emphasize that India now expects the translation and fulfillment of these declarations into action! ... I must express my pleasure at the presence of the Dominion Prime Ministers. . . . They are here to witness the birth of a new Dominion of India...
Like many another unusual man, David Herbert Lawrence, even while he was still alive, was famed for the wrong reason. Many a U. S. reader condemns him publicly, reads him privately, as a lewd fellow. Actually a plain dealer, his outspokenness on sex got this passionate preacher a bad name. This posthumous novel, his first to appear since the privately-printed Lady Chatterley's Lover, is sufficiently outspoken, but contains no Anglo-Saxonisms that would horrify a censor...