Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fault in the method of deriving it. And I question such transactions as that of the CRIMSON Editor with the Department of History. I merely wish to say that one ought not to revile Mr. Cramer's successes, where with a little reason it will be plain that the failures of the examination system are accountable...
...PURPLE PLAIN (308 pp.) - H. E. Bates-Little, Brown...
Posted to an airfield on the hot central plain of Burma, Forrester had gone through the motions of living and flying with a sick savagery that made others think he was "around the bend." Then the Senior M.O. had taken him on an outing to a Burmese village. There he had met a pale girl of great beauty who spoke English and wore a blossom in her hair...
With this barefaced situation, English Novelist Bates carries on as if the plot about the beautiful native girl had never been written before. An ex-R.A.F. officer himself, he wrote a homely yarn of flyers in The Cruise of the Breadwinner (TIME, March 10). The Purple Plain is a routine mission of romance and adventure. Flying by dead reckoning, Pilot Bates keeps on a hack's course with the skill of a fair minor novelist until he has deposited his hero quietly in bed with his girl...
Clue to the Worcester leads was supplied by reports that a gang, specializing in daylight robberies, had been seen there for the last two weeks. Police also suspect this group to be the same which committed the sensational $108,000 holdup of the Sturtevant machine company in Jamaica Plain two months...