Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...class as far back as ours, and also because the CRIMSON was to me, as to many editors of our time, a most rewarding experience. I don't mean financially, although in those simple Theodore Roosevelt days our skillful business ends made the lot of even the plain editor not only literary but lucrative. All editors worked hard then not only in running for the paper but also to maintain its quality...
...rudder at the third, the elevators at the fourth. Last week, searching through the wreckage of the Globemaster at Moses Lake, Wash., in which 87 servicemen died (TIME, Dec. 29), investigators found its locking panel-and the plain cause of the crash. The knob hadn't been pushed past the second notch...
...green baize U-shaped table in Paris' Palais de Chaillot, 42 foreign, defense and finance ministers of the 14 NATO nations last week sought agreement on how much the West should spend on defense in 1953. The debate was wordy, but the sense of the meeting was plain: a majority of those present believe the time has come for a thorough reassessment of NATO...
...grand public crookedness which too often prevails in the islands. The word is "anomalies." It first began to be used after the war, to refer to deals in surplus war stocks. The government has even set up a special "anomalies tribunal" to try offenders. What the plain people would rather have is government free of anomalies...
...Barlow believes that plain copper pipe can replace multiwire telephone cables as well as coaxial television cables (copper tubes with insulated copper cores). It is much cheaper than either of them. Chief remaining obstacle is the high cost of the magnetron tubes that must be used in its repeater stations, but he thinks their price can be cut down by large-scale manufacture...