Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intensely jealous of the Army officer group and last year went so far as to try to remove General Werner von Fritsch, then Commander-in-Chief of the Army, from his job by charging homosexuality. The General was ousted-for other reasons-but in the face of the plain truth that he was definitely not homosexual, the Army demanded and got General von Fritsch's public exoneration...
...Florence Rena Sabin, 67. In 1893, plain, blonde Florence Sabin graduated from Smith College. After a short period of teaching zoology, she bravely entered Johns Hopkins Medical School, thus starting a long career of firsts: first woman to graduate from the Hopkins, first woman to teach there, first woman member of the Rockefeller Institute, first (and only) woman member of the National Academy of Sciences. She is famed for her discovery of the origin and processes of the lymphatic system, her account of the development of blood cells, her studies of the blood in tuberculosis, her testing of chemical substances...
...Bakersfield, Calif., Teacher Hildegarde Case set out to prove to her pupils that plain foods are best, even for rats. To one rat she fed milk, whole wheat grains; to another, soda pop, salt pork, coffee. The first rat grew plump and healthy; the second even plumper. Suspecting a jokester, Teacher Case hid one night to waylay him. No one appeared, but in the morning she found eight baby rats in their soda-popped, pork-fed mother's cage...
What are the landmarks of America? Guidebooks and histories point to battlefields and the birthplaces of celebrities. But plain citizens who know their own towns know landmarks with less elevated associations: skyscrapers, banks, the saloon where the town boss held office, the hotel where politicians made their deals, the street corner where some brilliant newcomer was shot-the miscellaneous, nondescript, undistinguished scenes of local history which old-timers recognize and visitors pass without seeing...
...same time he made it plain that his ominous farewell Sunday night to friends at Warm Springs, Ga.--"I'll be back in the fall, if we don't have a war"--constituted an indirect warning to dictators that they must reckon with this nation's moral, if not physical force in any war they may wage against the democracies...