Word: plain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fall, the girls play field hockey and fence in the Quad, sail on the Charles, play tennis at the observatory courts, and swim at the gymnasium next to Agassiz. Also, they are free to enroll in equitation classes and travel to Medford or Jamaica Plain for jumping and riding in the afternoons...
...outer space is tens of times brighter than here on earth. The stars are easily visible. They are bright and distinct. The entire picture of the firmament has much more contrast than when seen from the earth." The sunlit side of the earth, he said, was quite plain, and he could easily see the shores of continents, islands, big rivers, folds in the terrain, large bodies of water. When passing over the Soviet Union, he spotted the great squares of collective farms. He could even tell cultivated land from pasture...
Although Harvard will probably not duplicate its Cambridge edition elsewhere, the University does have numerous holdings throughout the United States and the world. The University extends far beyond the banks of the Charles, or the Medical School in Boston, or the Arboretum in Jamaica Plain. In Massachusetts the University also owns the Harvard Forest and Black Rock Forest (6000 acres) in Petersham, the Bussey Institute for agriculture and horticulture is Jamacia Plain, the George R. Agassis Station in Harvard, Mass, (part of the Astronomical Observatory system), and the Blue Hill Meterological Observatory...
...Money. Ayub has pushed through a land reform program, redistributing some 23% of Pakistani farmland to onetime tenant farmers. Karachi's teeming refugee slums have been razed; some 100,000 refugees from the bloody division of Pakistan and India were relocated in plain but clean modern colonies. No longer is "tea money" necessary to get in to see a government official. Ayub has made Pakistan's government the least corrupt of any nation on the Asian continent...
Later the Iron Crown was put there too, and-except for occasional absences (it has crowned 44 monarchs)-has been kept there to this day. No one knows what wealthy nobleman of the 15th century commissioned the frescoes, but the signature of the Zavattaris was plain...