Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Winthrop defeat was caused by "just plain bad luck, more than anything else," according to one squad member. The Puritans made eight or ten first downs to the Commuters' two and they scored one touchdown and a safety, both of which were called on penalties...
...banish from his side a number of his closest friends, headed by stringy, loyal Harry Hopkins. The strict procession of his daily chores, his day-&-night responsibility for the U. S. (there was a world revolution on) had left him few minutes in any day for the relaxations a plain citizen may enjoy...
...Naval Reserve planes. From the No. 1 U. S. camoufleur, Director Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens of the Carnegie Institute's department of fine arts, Director Martin got a general line on the problem. Says Saint-Gaudens, a lieutenant colonel in the Engineers Reserve Corps: "Camouflage is just plain Injun fighting...
...multicolored blotches were used to break up outlines of ships, tanks, buildings, is old stuff. Chief reason: parti-colored camouflage alone gives little concealment from airplane observers, whose sharp eyes are likely to pick up shadows, breaks in the pattern of the landscape. Today the idea is to use plain, dull colors, eradicate shadows, break up telltale outlines. England has had considerable success in disguising airplane factories and flying fields as farms by distorting shadows, building dummy roads. Germany disguised many a new flying field by planting it in crops, laying dummy railroad tracks across the middle to fool high...
Less hasty were the American Lutherans, meeting in the ultra-plain parish hall of Detroit's Salem's Lutheran Church. Said ruddy, robust Dr. Emmanuel Poppen of Columbus, Ohio, their president: "The church's 1,600 pastors and 2,000 congregations must have an opportunity to be heard." Upshot: the American Lutherans expressed a fervent hope that they and the United Lutherans might both soon be united with the Missouri Synod. They appointed a new commission to continue negotiations...