Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boylston Hall is a Plain, granite building of the style of architecture generally devoted now to jails" says an 1870 issue of Appleton's magazine. During that year, paradoxically, the building contained enough chemicals to blow the best jail apart; and a quarter century later exploded into "one of the worst fires in recent years...
Whether he intended it that way or not, Robbins had also fashioned a perfect note-for-note caricature of Aaron Copland's plain and homely music. In doing so, he may have saved an otherwise inconsequential piece from oblivion...
...Plain Talk. N.A.M. members helped show them some production tricks on a nationwide tour of U.S. industry. Last week the time had come for some frank talk. Up to a conference platform stepped ex-ECA Boss Paul G. Hoffman, now director of the Ford Foundation. The trouble with European industry, said Hoffman, is that productivity is too low and competition is hamstrung. Hoffman said that the U.S. doesn't want to tell Europe how to run its business, but if Europe wants to step up its output, perhaps it "should abandon the highly civilized competition that prevails in most...
...Plain Talker. But no one was truer to the image of the ruggedly free businessman N.A.M. likes to see than its new president, William J. Grede (rhymes with Brady), 54, boss of Milwaukee's Grede Foundries, Inc. Elected to replay William H. Ruffin, president of Durham, N.C.'s Erwin Mills, Inc., Bill Grede describes himself as a "foundry man or sand rat, as we call it." By selling pots & pans, he worked his way through two years at the University of Wisconsin, then quit to invest in a small foundry. Ever since, he has been running...
...Taking meals regularly in the Houses is beyond the means of most commuters, and in general the Houses do not have adequate locker or study space for commuters," the report states. The plain fact is that the Houses right now are having trouble squeezing in all resident students, and would find it nearly impossible to handle commuters...