Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before Marie Curie's husband, absorbed in his dreams, had been killed by a truck. Marie Curie had been appointed to the chair of physics which he had held, first woman to hold a Sorbonne professorship. This was the occasion of her first lecture. She appeared in a plain black working dress. She bowed politely, waited for the applause to stop, turned to her class sitting in a group. "Pierre Curie has prepared the following lesson for you," she said, and from a notebook began to read the lecture her husband had not delivered...
Finally, as the week drew to a close, the whole convention sulked with a plain case of hurt feelings. Pedagogs patted their palms as Secretary Robert C. Moore of the Illinois State Teachers Association blurted out their grievance: "Our meek attitude and mild resolutions must cease. It is all too clear that we have little recognition as a power. We determined to come to Washington in the heat, thinking it probable that the President of the United States would like to address us. We have sweated and we have sweltered but not one single personal or official word has come...
...second step was recovery. ... I could cite statistics of our national progress. ... I also could cite statistics to show the great rise in the value of farm products. . . . But the simplest way for each of you to judge recovery lies in the plain facts of your own individual situation. Are you better off than you were last year? Are your debts less burdensome? Is your bank account more secure? Are your working conditions better? Is your faith in your own individual future more firmly grounded? . . . Plausible self-seekers and theoretical die-hards will tell you of the loss of individual...
...sore spot by getting President Roosevelt to decree the cancellation of the irksome price-fixing and "fair trade practice" provisions of the codes of service industries: cleaning & dyeing, laundry, automobile storage & parking, etc. Last week three of the affected industries boldly renounced what remained of their codes. In plain-spoken letters to the White House the cleaners and garagemen all gave the same reason: The benefits of a code had been taken away and only the burdens remained...
Finally von Papen appealed covertly for restoration of the Monarchy in words' plain to every German: "In my opinion the German state will at some future date find its crowning glory in a Chief of State who is removed once and for all from the political arena, from demagogy and from clashes among economic and vocational interests...