Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because 19 power companies have obtained a temporary court injunction restraining TVA's efforts to distribute power. Wendell L. Wilkie, president of Commonwealth & Southern Corp. said that the President had known at the time of the conference in September that the utilities planned to continue their court fight. Plain inference by most observers was that the President had used the injunction as an excuse, had really broken off the pool negotiations for other reasons. So doing he clearly rebuffed the plea of Chairman Arthur Morgan of TVA for a peaceful effort to get along with the utilities (TIME...
Chief of Staff Malin Craig in Washington announced that he was ready if necessary to evacuate the entire Mississippi flood plain from Cairo to New Orleans. Major General Herbert J. Brees, commanding the Eighth Corps Area on the west bank of the Mississippi, was making preparations to evacuate eastern Arkansas and his troopers were busy setting up concentration camps. In the Fourth Corps Area, east of the Mississippi, Major General George Van Horn Moseley had an even bigger responsibility for on his bank are most of the big river cities, the once great steamboat towns: Memphis, Vicksburg, Natchez, New Orleans...
...high enough to hold the whole flood in the river channel, for the subsoil would give way under the pressure, if not the levee itself. Hence when big floods occurred the Army planned to let the river use floodways over the lowlands, to let say 20% of the alluvial plain be submerged in order to protect the rich lands of the other...
That the art of eating has gone the way of the art of glass blowing was made plain by such order lists as the one above which is just part of the menu for a 1468 dinner tendered two English statesmen. Or, if you are still hungry just peruse the following food which required 62 chefs to prepare for a contemporary spread. Six wild bulls, 104 oxen, 400 swine, 1000 mutton, 1200 quail, 304 stags, and 3000 pigs were among the delicate offered to the gathering of 4000. Just what percentage of the 4000 had another little snack at bedtime...
...stray ramble through the back pages of the University's catalogue turned up some amusing examples of plain and fancy names among the student body. Perhaps most breathtaking is that of H. R. X. d'Aeth, English graduate student from Cambridge University, who spoke as a delegate at the undergraduate part of the Tercentenary last September. For harmonic reciprocity we have Messrs. Ting and Toong of China, for laconic resignation there is I. Pass '40, while B. Schur '40 exhorts all to verify before jumping to conclusions. It's getting to be sinfully weather, too, as A. Schuh '38 will...