Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...membership and set the first negotiating sessions for next week. At the risk of jettisoning deep-rooted ties with the Commonwealth, Britain had finally decided that her own and the West's future lay in European unity, by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's ponderous admission: "The plain fact is that the formation and development of the Community has created, economically and politically, a situation to which we are compelled to react...
First at London's St. Thomas's Hospital, and lately at Columbia-Presbyterian, plain oxygen has proved to be a useful ally toward this goal. Cells are more easily destroyed if they have a large supply of oxygen, but tumor cells are frequently oxygen-starved; they grow so rapidly that they outstrip their blood supply. Radiotherapists speculated that they might make up the deficiency by putting the patient in a chamber where he could breathe oxygen at a pressure four times that of the atmosphere. A high concentration of oxygen could then be carried in the bloodstream...
...Williamson tobacco com pany (Kools, Raleighs. Viceroys) said that it was against violence: on Brown & Williamson shows no actor is allowed to grind out a cigarette violently in an ashtray or stamp it out underfoot. "Whenever cigarettes are used by antagonists or questionable characters, they should be regular size, plain ends, and unidentifiable. But no cigarette should be used as a prop to depict an undesirable character. Cigarettes used by meritorious characters should be Brown & Williamson brands...
...Harvard, who are intelligent without necessarily being 'intellectuals' but whose distinction is primarily other--goodness or loyalty or energy or perceptivity or a passionate concern of some sort. We might even have a few who aren't particularly distinguished in anyways, who aren't brilliant leaders, who are just plain, ordinary decent, uncomplicated human being like so many faculty sons and Harvard sons, to provide a human scale in this community of supermen...
Finally, Bender made a plea for a Harvard with some students "who aren't brilliant or leaders, who are just plain, ordinary, decent uncomplicated human beings ... to provide a human scale in this community of superman...