Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present, Lamont closes for the weekend at 5:30 p.m. Friday, and Widener at 1 p.m. Saturday. Complaining students have made it plain that they would prefer air-conditioned Lamont as a location for weekend study. They have also pointed out that the dormitories are usually too hot and noisy for comfortable studying...
...made the leap from medieval toward renaissance portraiture. The captain, who painted it himself, thought in terms of shapes not pattern, action not stillness, and character not spirit. Almost nothing is known about Smith, but his picture presents much more evidence than historians generally allow. The canvas makes plain that he had sailed the sea, that he had seen European pictures, and that he was a stern man, thoughtful of death. The poem under the pictured skull reads, in part...
...After sifting the reports of more than 4,000 public-school teachers across the U.S., the National Education Association tried to answer the question: How widespread are juvenile delinquency and plain misconduct among today's pupils? Though two out of three teachers said that less than one in every 100 students is a troublemaker, a substantial number felt that delinquency has increased over the past ten years. Half reported an increase in impertinence and discourtesy, 43% said that more pupils disregard their homework, and about one in three noted a rise in vandalism, drinking, profanity and stealing...
Many modern composers are dissatisfied-or just plain bored-with the sounds of conventional instruments. To rectify this situation, they go to many lengths. New York Composer John Cage doctors his piano tone with bits of hardware. France's Pierre Schaeffer and his followers in musique concrete create unworldly compositions out of worldly sounds on tape recorders. Today, on both sides of the Atlantic, composers are experimenting with a sound source with an unplumbed potential for novelty and expression: electronic sound generators...
Stolen Horse. Long after the horse had been stolen, the American Stock Exchange and SEC rushed to the stable, began to investigate to find out the why. The reason was plain. To finance some of his corporate purchases, Albert had borrowed heavily from South Bend, Ind.'s Associates Discount Corp. When Albert fell a year behind in his payments, the Discount Corp. took judgment a fortnight ago on $1,372,622 in Albert loans, tying up his personal bank accounts. When word got out that Albert could not pay his bills...