Word: plain
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Peretz begins with a history of the Museum laden with an encrustation of folklore and plain errors in fact. Among other things he speaks of the "forty-year exile" of the Semitic Museum. At the opening of the Museum to the public on April 4, 1982, I began with the following remarks, "The Harvard Gazette announced this week that the Semitic Museum was reopening after forty years. I found this notice of interest. In fact the Museum was forced underground twenty-five years ago. However, the Gazette [or rather its source] preferred the biblical and Semitic round number forty...
...Core usually takes up about one-quarter of a given student's academic program. Your concentration determines which Cores you don't have to take, and usually these are the ones that are too redundant--or too plain easy--for someone in that field. Why doesn't a physics major have to take Science A? Because Science A courses aren't much compared to Physics...
There are other excuses and rationalizations. But it is time for some plain talk: if AIDS were any other disease -- say, hepatitis B or tuberculosis -- we would have no trouble (and indeed we have had none) introducing the necessary preventive measures. Moreover, we should make it clear that doing all you can to prevent the spread of AIDS or any other fatal disease is part and parcel of an unambiguous commandment: Thou shalt not kill...
...distant past, The Crimson's newsroom was populated mainly by the first model of journalists--the Woodward and Bernstein wannabes. Our job was to ferret out the good, the bad and the just plain ugly at Harvard and offer it to the people...
Tasting the concoction, the emperor found it to be a considerable improvement over plain water. Shen Nung revealed the discovery to his people, and the phenomenon of tea drinking began...