Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...then practical politicians call him a "d-n literary fellow." This is the result of his college training! A college-bred man can do better in professional life, where his irregular habits may be tolerated, than in business; but even here he is at a disadvantage beside a plain, matter-of-fact man of the world...
There are lines of lazy camels pacing the sandy plain...
...friend. The safest rule to govern your own conduct is this; Never do anything which you are ashamed to confess. If you stick to this you will not have to lie, and if you can avoid lying you will find that your course through life will be pretty plain sailing...
...temporary measure, because a healthier state of boating affairs would be shown rather by a change from sixes to eights than from sixes to fours, and we are not ready yet to give up in despair the hope of seeing our boating affairs assume a more prosperous aspect. The "Plain Facts" which we submitted to the notice of our readers in the last issue of the Crimson, should be carefully considered by those men who have rowed formerly and are not now candidates for the University crew...
...believe, cause our subscribers any inconvenience, and it will greatly simplify the somewhat complicated state of our books. The paper has been in existence, now, for three and a half years, and during that time we have lost something like two hundred dollars on subscribers' bills. It is plain that had the plan which we intend now to inaugurate been put into operation when the first number of the paper was published and been strictly adhered to afterwards, this sum would now stand upon our account as profit, instead of loss. For this and other obvious reasons, we have decided...