Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...freight yards at Lucerne two special cars were hastily prepared, one for the body of Astrid, the other for Leopold alone. Dressed in a plain black suit, his jaw taped, his arm in a white sling, the King entered the car early in the evening, waited in the yards until the St. Gothard Express chuffed in from Milan. All through the night, as the train streaked across Europe, the King sat in his car with only his Premier and his secretary for company. Early next morning a squadron of cavalry led the body of Queen Astrid back through the streets...
...infantile paralysis is caused by a virus which attacks nerves after a toxin created by the virus makes those nerves vulnerable. The paralysis which Dr. Brodie and other experimenters produce in monkeys, says Dr. Toomey, "is not the kind of poliomyelitis that is seen in the human being." One plain reason: the monkey's four legs become paralyzed; the human being's arms are much less frequently affected...
...wish to make it plain, however, that we are not here in the interests of any banker in the U. S.," announced Senator Wheeler on arrival. But the Montana Democrat, who championed the "death sentence" for utility holding companies without a qualm for stockholders, almost wept for "the small investors who put their life savings into the Public Works bonds because of their confidence in Cuba's honor & integrity...
...front with products for distribution. Now he is owner of a Back Bay rooming house and uses the proceeds from his knitting to help support Mrs. Cann who has become an invalid. Last week, Knitter Cann, whose strokes are old-fashioned and who can do only a plain stitch, went to the Tercentenary Committee's knitting bee intending to watch rather than compete, entered with misgiving when the committee asked for volunteers. He sat down, removed his coat, put his straw hat in his lap for a knitting basket, and revealed a smooth head fringed with grey. His prize...
Spring Davis, an aged Missouri farmer, loved one of his dogs, Bugle Ann, because her voice soared with a queer, brassy resonance high above the baying of the pack. Davis and his neighbors, plain, silent men, trained dogs for more fashionable hunters, let the hounds race nightly but never killed a fox. When Jacob Terry put up a fence that endangered the dogs, the old men quarreled, but Spring Davis' son nevertheless continued to make love to Jacob Terry's daughter. Bugle Ann disappeared, and Spring Davis, believing that Terry had killed her, shot him and went...