Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is the statement President Conant made along with 19 other members of the Educational Policies Commission, a group sponsored jointly by the National Education Association and the American Association of School Administrators. Since the Commission statement was released yesterday, President Conant has made it plain that he stands behind that position, and that the takes exception to no part...
...banked stage a minister intoned the words of the Episcopal burial service: "I am the resurrection and the life . . . Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" An honor guard of Marine riflemen fired three sharp volleys over the plain white wooden marker: "James V. Forrestal, Lieut. U.S.N." and a Marine bugler sounded taps. In the crowd of departing mourners, hat in hand, went the man who had begun to carry on from the point where the doughty, dedicated spirit of James Forrestal had finally given...
...second reason is the FBI--not just the eight or so regular New Haven agents, but the many more undercover agents, the liaison men on the faculty, the FBI informants, official, semi-official, and just plain snoopers. Provost Furniss himself says that the known agents are only a minority in the New Haven FBI system. No one agrees on this system's area of investigation. In the physics department alone, some feel that every faculty member and student is under surveillance; others believe that few men except applicants for government positions and men involved in government projects are being checked...
Banker Jones remonstrated, but Plain Ben got himself a few horses and struck out. In between fairs, he kept his eyes open for a man with a horse and an urge to bet. Whenever he found one, a course was marked out and a match run, with the stakes sometimes as high...
...family's 85-year-old store is both an art shrine where collectors and plain shoppers may browse in peace, and a smart shop where a bride may order everything from her china, glassware and sterling to her custom-tailored furniture and kimonos. Gump's will give shelf room to a $12.50 piece of California pottery-if it is esthetically good-alongside a $1,800 piece of Ming Dynasty porcelain, and encourages its customers to do the same...