Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...muddy bleak Tiomne, near Uman, a church was crowded last week. Dingy communicants, bearded, bright-eyed, breathless, gazed in fascination at a plain wooden table which stood before the altar. A young man lay across the table. His throat was bared...
...Singapore the coolie says, with a shrug: 'Ahpah bohlch buot?" In plain American: 'What's the use?" As the Saint-Simonistes claim: "Voilà l'exploitation de I'homme par I'homme...
...Samuel Emory Thomason, half of Bryan-Thomason Newspaper Publishers, Inc. (TIME, May 20), also testified. He admitted that he had been commissioned by International officials to try to buy many midwest newspapers. The Cleveland Plain Dealer, said Co-Publisher Thomason, was approached by him. It refused an offer of 21 million dollars. The Plain Dealer was not for sale, Mr. Thomason was told. With many another journal he had the same success. But in three newspapers (Chicago Journal, Tampa Tribune, Greensboro, N. C. Record) owned by Bryan-Thomason, International has an interest...
...Boston people, where no defense was necessary. In a fine passion he tells what a great people we are, and how nice everything is here. He defies students living on the "gold coast" of Harvard College, and a lot more of the same stuff. All of which was just plain bunk...
...unbalanced mind. For such is the inevitable stranglehold that a keeper has on his charges. Author North 3-1's testimony suggests severe indictment for the private sanitarium carelessly licensed, and of the state hospital crowded heterogeneously with murderers pleading insanity, with bona fide idiots, and with plain drunkards...