Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Amsterdam's great white-plastered Wester Kerk the light is religious but not dim. Through its many plain-glass windows floods a clear, Vermeer-like light. Last week, at the closing service of the first Assembly of the World Council of Churches, this revealing light showed every detail: ruff-collared Scandinavians; bearded, black-veiled Orthodox dignitaries; purple-cassocked Old Catholics; saffron-stoled representatives of the Church of South India; U.S. pastors in business suits and glittering spectacles. For the past fortnight, delegates from 147 churches in 44 countries-every major branch of Christianity except Roman Catholicism and the Russian...
Annual Reports. U.S. corporations, long belabored for turning out complicated annual reports which few people could understand, have worked hard to simplify them with charts, pictures and plain talk. In the current Harvard Business Review, President George D. Bailey of the American Institute of Accountants belabors corporations for making reports too simple: "The emphasis has been on getting more people to read the reports . . . rather than on giving more significant information to those capable of using...
This week Columbia issued its first authorized report on phenosulfazole. The news was good. But the university made it plain that it will be a long time before anybody can safely use the words "cure" and "polio" in the same sentence...
...chance to play one of fiction's most durable hussies. To give Rita's millions of fans their money's worth, Columbia has spared nothing, not even the horses: the movie has splashy Technicolor, spicy love scenes, a talented cast, lavish sets, a stagecoach robbery, plain & fancy violence. It is only a well-dressed western with gypsy trimmings, but it is entertaining in an oldfashioned, simple-minded...
...Voroshilov picked up De Strobl in his limousine, took him to the top of rocky Gellert Hill, which overlooks the city, the Danube, and the broad Hungarian plain. Said he: "This is where we will put our monument." With the help of 300 workers, they...