Word: plaines
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...goes to M. F. Webber of Boston, a second-year graduate student; a University Scholarship to J. R. Brewster of Auburndale, a student in the Theological School; and the Josiah Dwight Whitney Scholarship for the summer study of field geology or geography to M. P. Billings '23, of Jamaica Plain...
...reiterate to these sons of privilege that your duty is plain to your flag and your country. If you want to retain your individual respect, take advantage of the opportunities now offered by your country
...another of the yearly crop of "great American novels." Since its publication in book form its reception has been uneven. It is an easy book to rave over and an even easier one at which to laugh. A few of the unintelligently prurient have been shocked by its plain speaking. F. P. A., of The New York World, was bored by it. So were Burton Rascoe, of The New York Tribune, and Edmund Wilson, Jr., of The Dial. Dr. Henry Seidel Canby,_ of The Literary Review, regards it as " a new Pilgrim's Progress." His praise is not quite...
...week, this was extraordinary when it is remembered that the Reichsbank successively issued 440 billion and 420 billion new paper marks during the past two weeks. Indeed, almost 1½ trillion marks, or about 50% of the present outstanding issue, were added during February. Under such conditions it is plain that the present efforts of the Government to stabilize German exchange rates are foredoomed to failure...
...northwest wood, good cooks and wives are scarce. We have lots of females that can feed one from tin cans from the grocery, the Buster Brown haircut kind, high-heeled, beauteous, automobile vamps and dance hall microbes but what we want, sir, are just plain women...