Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tonight at our weekly union meeting a motion was made commending Senator B. K. Wheeler for his stand on convoys and the drift toward war. It was passed by a large majority. The men who passed it are Americans born, or naturalized. Not Reds, Blacks, or Browns, just plain workingmen...
...still commonly believed that this country is making a magnificent defense effort in accordance with a carefully conceived defense program. . . . However . . . the effort is not nearly strenuous enough and ... the program is not at all clear and well developed. Behind the talk of billions for defense lies the plain and simple fact that funds appropriated lag behind our needs for military materials, and that production lags behind the appropriations. It is urgent that we see more clearly . . . move more rapidly and decisively. . . ." > "It would seem clear that the way to defeat an enemy is to gain a superiority in arms...
...both brothers found the call of their old homestead and neighbors in Lancaster County too strong to resist. Says George: "They are plain folk but friendly and hospitable. Only thing is they put food on the table and you got to reach for it if you want any. Otherwise you don't get nothing. I guess that characterizes the Dutch around here...
Despite administrative protests that the new three year requirements will not constitute a lowering of Harvard standards, it is fairly plain that the ruling is strictly an emergency measure. Trite as it may seem, much of a college education is contained not in the four courses plus tutorial per annum but rather in the life outside of classes. Twenty years out of college, so our elders tell us, one is more likely to remember riots than lectures, and friends than textbooks. Not only will the new regulations cut down the period of college life by almost a full year...
...reduction of parliaments (the congress of Soviets, the Reichstag) to a mere sounding board is an essential feature of the managerial revolution. "With occasional petty rebellions," Congress, he notes, has sunk "lower and lower as sovereignty shifted from the parliament toward the bureaus and agencies. ... By 1940, it was plain that Congress no longer possessed even the war-making power, the crux of sovereignty. The Constitutional provision could not stand against the structural changes in modern society and in the nature of modern war: the decisions about war and peace had left the control of the parliament...