Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plain matter of national self-interest," President Truman this week demanded U.S. participation in construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway and power project. Truman said in a message to Congress that an entirely new situation had been created by Canada's decision to build the seaway alone if the U.S. did not participate (see HEMISPHERE...
...Gehrmann, a pressagent for the American Automobile Association, and Fred Wilt, a plain agent for the FBI, know the turnstile value of a few well-chosen words. For three years they have been close competitors, chasing each other around the indoor track circuit in the mile run. Last week, after Gehrmann had beaten Wilt, by a matter of feet, for the second straight night, the milers began a battle of words...
This month marked the first anniversary of the University. Institution of Applied Biology in Jamaica Plain. Inside the old Victorian building lies the modern Blood Characterization and Preservation Laboratory where revolutionary new blood processing equipment--to collect blood from donors and simultaneously separate it into its component parts is being developed...
...University Laboratory itself is housed in the Harvard Medical School, while its Blood Preservation Laboratory, site of development work arising from fundamental research--and where donors blood--in the Bussey Institution of Applied Biology in Jamaica Plain...
...plain talk, this saga of the Young Pretender is too static to be a good adventure story...