Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Winsor of 73 Main Street, Framingham, Mass.; Williston Academy Easthampton, Mass, Storey, James Moor-field of 229 Perkins Street, Jamaica Plain, Mass.; Groton School, Groton, Mass...
...Your well-written and illustrated piece about "Plain Ben" Jones and the Calumet stable [TIME, May 30] ... is turf reporting at its best, and has caused much favorable comment here in Derbytown...
...Devil Red & Plain Ben" is a masterpiece of reporting. But you missed one bet. Where does Mrs. Warren Wright get such "neat" names as Whirlaway, Citation, Coaltown and All Blue...
...sort of compromise. His telescope has a concave spherical mirror, which is much easier to make than the parabolic mirror of a reflecting telescope. In front of it, to bring the light to a focus without "spherical aberration," is a correcting plate so slightly curved that it looks like plain sheet glass. The Schmidt telescope's advantage: it can take pictures of large patches of sky and have them turn out as sharp on the edges as in the center...
...Plainly, I am not "a sports enthusiast." And it is fortunate that Harvard affords sanctuary for that small band, including myself, which does not shriek, moan, gibber, or drool at the actions of local athletes. (I would like to make it plain that my group is not "intellectual," and that its scholastic average is only slightly above the average. My friends and I enjoy moving-pictures, ice-cream, comic-strips, and in most other respects are Typically American...