Word: plain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...plain truth is that Mr. Jones fell down rather badly on the job, . . . The proof of an official's worth to his country lies in his ability to meet and conquer the kind of obstacles of which Mr. Jones complains...
...moral was dreadfully plain to all the U.S. (where the same thing would happen State by State if the people let the bosses run things): if the people and press fail, they will get the kind of Congress they deserve, and the kind of Government they deserve...
...ethylene dichloride and chloropicrin are withheld from insecticide manufacturers for the benefit of war materials. The phosphorus paste that used to kill cockroaches now goes into incendiary bombs. A group of six articles on the war against insects, in the current issue of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry, makes these facts plain...
Coming up fast is an astonishing solution : the airplane, not as a flashy offensive weapon, but as a plain, hardworking, jack-of-all-transport. Such air transports drummed the skies of the world last week, their hulls loaded with the seeds of offensives to come...
...Negroes, at first, were delighted. When they took another look, they began screaming "Nazi attitude," "insult," "a definite straddle." The reason was plain as a battleship: new rule or no, Negroes still cannot rise above a noncom, still must train and serve in segregated groups...