Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Chicago, George Series, 15, and Edward Mendenhall Jr., 16, went off to join the U. S. Army. They took with them: two bayonets of the Franco-Prussian War, one bayonet of the Civil War, one plain bayonet, one fancy dress sword...
Pondering such facts, plain citizens were bound to wonder whether phrases like "12,000 more planes for Britain" were deceitful figments. The U. S. industry has no such capacity now (its October production of warplanes was less than 1,000). What the President was really talking about-no matter how immediate he sounded-was future capacity. Some of the plants to create this capacity were abuilding last week, should be in production next year. For many of them, "future" meant 1942, at the earliest. Booming Pratt &Whitney, for instance, should indeed have its 17,000-20,000 annual rate...
...Adriatic coastal plain, the Italians succeeded in driving a bridgehead across the Kalamas River, and in sending patrols several miles beyond the river. But this week the Greeks, greatly aided by the rain, claimed to have succeeded in pushing the enemy back to the bridgehead...
...iguanas and a baby alligator wriggled over the Burbank lot, while animators studied their lizardy movements. By the time a complete cast had been rounded up for the Rite, the Disney zoo contained eusthenopterons, brachiosaurs, brontosaurs, plesiosaurs, mesosaurs, diplodocuses, triceratopses, pterodactyls, trachodons, struthiomimuses, stegosaurs, archaeopteryxes, pteranodons, tyrannosaurs and enough plain run-of-the-Jurassic dinosaurs to people a planet. Studio cameras groaned under the burden of the whole story of evolution...
...What if schools and colleges took seriously the task of putting emotional feeling into the sight of a freshly and correctly plowed field, a plain of spring wheat, a harbor of boats, or the smoke of chimneys of factories at work, the rolling hills of Ohio, the irrigated valleys of Colorado and California? ... If American schools would give children and youth some understanding of the American Dream, they must send them out to search the hearts of the American people and to live on its soil...