Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...becoming plain at last that New Dealers were unwelcome in the Administration...
...Cape Passero, moved on to Syracuse, took it (with the help of naval and air bombardment), moved on to Augusta, took that, lost it, recaptured it, moved on again, past a difficult stretch of broken escarpment and many a toughly defended hill and mountain pass, to stand on the plain before Catania. By then half the eastern coast of Sicily was in their hands...
What these steps should be came out at the second-and widely publicized-meeting of 16 U.S. airlines last week. This time Pan Am did not attend. Neither did American Export Airlines (which now operates to Ireland), nor United Air Lines. The reason was soon plain...
...Marine Corps Chevron at San Diego gathered and published a glossary of leatherneck slang heavily flavored with Chinese, Tagalog, pidgin English and plain Navy. Examples...
Professor or Percentage. Content with his $7,000 salary, Steenbock at first refused to accept royalties on his patents, but the University made him take 15%. Eventually, to the dismay of plain-living Harry Steenbock, this amounted to $50,000-$75,000 a year. The Research Foundation, meanwhile, grew rich beyond its dreams. Wisconsin professors began to produce a bonanza of new inventions; today the Research Foundation owns some 30 patents, including one for the synthetic production of hormones...