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Word: plain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Usage:

...laboratory for the use of the academic department at Yale is to be built. It will be situated opposite the gymnasium, and will be built of brick, with plain exterior. Work on the laboratory will be begun in about a month, and will be pushed forward to completion in about a year from the start...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/2/1882 | See Source »

...Wilde," is what an exchange calls him. T??? must sound very harshly to the poor sensitive cars of him who loves to be called plain, simple Oscar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/26/1882 | See Source »

Again, what worse habit can a student form than that of procrastination, - of "putting off till tomorrow, what can be done today?" Its disagreeable features are surely plain to us all, when, before the final, or mid-year examinations, we contemplate the immense amount of work that has accumulated, and vainly regret so many wasted hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/14/1882 | See Source »

...never can make myself plain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

Could you make yourself plain, if you would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

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