Word: plain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thick and fast. We passed several detachments of mud-stained infantry who bore unmistakable signs of having passed the previous night in the trenches. The fields on either side of the road were pitted with shell holes; many of the farmhouses were charred and roofless; and the plain wooden crosses which marked the graves of fallen heroes became increasingly frequent as we sped along. Some of the bodies had been buried so hastily that the spring rains and early ploughing had uncovered them, with the result that in many places the air was black with crows hovering about in search...
...article in the current issue of "The World's Work". President Lowell makes an appeal to pacifists, preparationists and plain people, to interest themselves in the principles of the League to Enforce Peace, which he with ex-President Taft and others Organized at Philadelphia, in Independence Hall, on June...
...from 11.00 A. M., June 20, to June 24. June 22.--Members and their wives will have luncheon at Smith Hall, one of the Freshman Dormitories; Supper at the Colonial Club, Cambridge. June 23.--Members and their wives will be entertained at luncheon by the Misses Slocum, of Jamaica Plain; 7.00, twenty-fifth anniversary class dinner, Algonouin Club, Boston. June 24.--Chief Marshal's luncheon...
...criticism from both inside and outside has aided in the evolution of methods and standards as impartial as can perhaps exist in a matter where judgment must be exercised. An article by the secretary published recently in the Illustrated, and setting forth frankly the methods of election, makes this plain...
...Student Council is shirking its plain duty to country, to College, and to undergraduate. After a year of success, it has fallen flat in a crucial crisis. It has not heeded the summery twittering of the birds, nor the appearance of the succulent strawberry and the white flannel pant. In short it has not recognized the fact that the season of boaters is again with...