Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anton Marek, senior police inspector and a staunch anti-Nazi, last seen in 1948 entering Soviet occupation headquarters in answer to a telephone summons. Reported Moscow: Marek, now 65, is serving 20 years "for espionage." For his bedridden wife, Russian officials had a letter scribbled in pencil on plain paper: "I am a prisoner in the Soviet Union. I am in fairly good physical condition, though I have to work here in the jail. I am longing to see you. My fondest love to our son and friends...
First Tide. Since 1947, when Imperial Oil, Ltd.'s Leduc No. 1 gushed from a snow-covered Alberta plain, 45 new oilfields have been spudded in across the province. Portable derricks, lumbering over the land like giant steel giraffes, have drilled more than two new wells a day. More than 300 million U.S. dollars, one of the freest and fastest streams of American private capital ever sluiced into a foreign country, have been invested in Alberta oil. Reserves of 2 billion bbls. are already proved, and experts say that that is only the first tide from a great oily...
...Chubb Crater and the lake that now fills it will never be a handy tourist attraction like Arizona's meteorite crater near Canyon Diablo. It is close to Hudson Strait, on a granite plain so desolate that even arctic animals prefer to live somewhere else. Discovered by Prospector Fred W. Chubb (who noticed its telltale circular shape in an air photo), it was briefly explored by Geologist Meen in the summer of 1950 (TIME, Aug. 14, 1950) with inconclusive results. He decided that it had not been caused by a volcanic explosion or glacial action; but there...
Listeners can now decide whether the Frostian voice is apple juice or eagle, or something better than either-a great, plain poet speaking in homely Vermont cadences. Last March, for the National Council of Teachers of English, 76-year-old Robert Frost recorded 40 minutes of his poetry, and last week the results were released in music shops. Of all the poets whose readings have been recorded (e.g., Vachel Lindsay, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot), it is Frost whose voice rings truest, and adds most to the meaning of the poems...
...records, many will feel like the Frost fan who once told the poet he never knew how to read Frost until he heard him talk. But as Frost reads Mending Wall, Two Tramps in Mud Time, The Death of the Hired Man, and 21 others, it becomes plain that, barring shyness, any Vermont hired hand would know how to read the poems right the first time...