Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House of Commons adopted a resolution which made it plain to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that no colonial handout was in the immediate offing, but did not completely slam the door to future bargaining. The resolution read that "no change in the status of colonies, protectorates or mandated territories could at any time be considered which did not take full account of the interests and wishes of the inhabitants." The vote was 253 for, 127 against, the opposition Laborites voting "no" only because the resolution wasn't strong enough for them. Said Colonial and Dominions Secretary Malcolm MacDonald...
...tough spot this time with the Man of the Year, because it is plain that he can't be anybody else but Hitler. On the other hand, it is just as plain that you will not have the courage and daring to publish his picture on the front page of TIME, risking thereby a number of subscriptions and facing the howl of the rabble. It will therefore be amusing to watch you trying to wiggle out of that perplexity...
...years geologists have wondered what physiographic (earth-changing) agency caused wide alluvial plains-like the nine-mile valley floor east of Troy, N. Y.-which are out of all proportion to the deposits attributable to their present small streams. Last week Geologists Rudolf Ruedemann and Walter J. Schoonmaker of the New York State Museum solved the riddle, and at the same time implied that either geologists should get outdoors more or, when they did get out, should be looking at other things besides rocks. The physiographic force which had caused the Troy plain, and others like it, was the beaver...
...farther upstream and built another. When the whole valley was a series of muddy terraces the beavers went off to another stream. Then the stream broke through the dams one by one and carried a huge load of silt down to the bottom of the valley, forming an alluvial plain...
...undergraduate harmony. And there can be no doubt that too narrow a basis will cause student resentment of this appeal and a certain friction in everyday relations. On the other hand, there can be even less doubt that the Committee has tried to place its appeal on a broad plain, although in one or two details it has been short-sighted...