Word: plain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...radical element is using propaganda to its fullest extent. The logical way to combating this is with counter-propaganda. In plain words, if we want to keep the dirty fingers of the Soviet off our government and institutions we must rap those fingers with a "big stick" of counter-propaganda before they obtain a grip...
...editorial of December 3 entitled "Italian Paradoxes." The trouble with that exotic, damaging wind up is that the conclusion has been grounded on a groundless minor premise which somehow seems to have crept into many a superficial, unhistorical mind. Despite mischievous Machiavellian (Japanese) misrepresentations and overbubbling Senatorial sentimentalism, the plain, broad historical fact remains that Shantung, the cradle of Cathayan civilization, has stayed put as Chinese--and stood pat against alien intrusion, I will add--since time immemorial; and Chinese will it ever be without need of capturing, let alone d'Annunzio and his army. Academically put, the political sovereignty...
...been recommended by a visiting committee of the Board of Overseers that the Botanic Garden of the University, now situated at the corner of Garden and Linnaean streets, Cambridge, should be combined with the Bussey Institution and moved to the latter's grounds at Jamaica Plain. Both of these places are connected with the University. The Botanic Garden, which was founded here in 1807, and became famous under the 30-year directorship of Dr. Asa Gray, contains at present more than 5000 species of flowering plants, cultivated for educational and scientific purposes. The Bussey Institution, with which the Visitation Committee...
...course in Railroad and Topographic Surveying will be given from June 30 to August 8, inclusive in Cambridge, meeting five days a week, two session daily, 9-12, 1-5. This course requires in preparation a course in Plain Surveying and Plane trigonometry and Logarithms. This course will be limited to about...
...refusing to hold its second annual meeting in Chicago, the Legion made it plain what its action toward pro-Germans and former pro-Germans would be. Mayor Thompson of Chicago had refused to invite the French mission to his city, had publicly proclaimed Chicago as the 'sixth German city of the world,' and had shown his pro-German tendencies by many other actions. It seemed entirely fitting to refuse to hold a convention of American war veterans in a city which had re-elected him mayor...