Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot but send a word of thanks for your courage in reporting the recent goings-on of the Buchmanites ("Oxford Groupers") on the Pacific Coast with such insight and accuracy [TIME, July 31]. I know I speak the minds of many plain, ordinary church members, who hesitate to sound anything like a harsh note . . . when I say that the ballyhoo of these spiritual high-pressurists fills them with something akin to nervous suspicion and mistrust...
...noisiest demonstration of all followed the reading of a message from Franklin Delano Roosevelt. By his own account, he chose his words with extreme care so that their meaning should be pikestaff plain...
...Clarence Alonzo Mills of the University of Cincinnati believes that sun spots cause economic depressions. He also believes that the biggest cause of disease in the U. S. is not poverty, urban life, or plain ignorance, but "cold polar waves traveling down the central trough of the continent." Last week in a book-full of statistics, weather maps and medical long shots, Dr. Mills published his latest ideas on the ill winds of North America...
...humor, bewilderment and passion of Miss Lillie make Hawthorne's and Cooper's damsels seem moral abstractions. Although, in its 466 pages, the book sometimes seems labored, and antiquated asides slow down its fast story, De Forest's wit picks it up, springs out in the plain talk of soldiers, his comments on the appallingly dull conversations of people in love, on the mores of the Puritan North and the Cavalier South. Says Yale's Professor Gordon S. Haight, who believes that De Forest's characters are unsurpassed in U. S. fiction...
...Chamberlain, like Mr. Roosevelt, faced a purge of his own party. The vote-245-to-129-gave the Government a comfortable majority, but because many a member was already on his way to vacation haunts, it fell 115 votes below average, looked bad on the record, made it plain that the Government had misjudged the anxiety of all voters, the misgivings of all parties...