Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...completely self-made philanthropist is today Lord Nuffield, raised in the New Year's Honors list from baron to viscount (TIME, Jan. 10). About a month ago Nufneld registered privately in high Fleet Street quarters a mild protest at the habit English reporters had of describing him as plain and hearty "Bill" Morris, the bucolic bicycle maker of Oxford who cleverly expanded into building Morris cars and grew so rich in 25 years that to Oxford University alone he has given $17,700,000 (TIME...
...fuel dumping as a method of lightening a plane, that it is forbidden by the Bureau of Air Commerce on all U. S. passenger-carrying aircraft. It is therefore possible that Ed Musick's last professional decision was his first unwise one. Nevertheless, President Trippe made it plain: "I feel that Captain Musick and his flight crew are entirely blameless...
...this situation are not trying to establish themselves in business; they do not want "career" jobs involving years of apprenticeship. They want work which they can take today and leave tomorrow and which will pay as handsomely as possible, they should not look for "opportunities in business," but for plain jobs not labeled "for college men only...
...technologic advance has caused so much sociological dislocation. Most scientists, if they have been left to their benches and desks, have been too busy to heed or hear. But last week when the American Associatioi for the Advancement of Science met at Indianapolis, it was perfectly plain that its leaders had begun to think about science & society. Their defenses and explanations of science were loud, lyrical and categorical...
...favor an education based upon the social sciences look for vocational studies as its inevitable corallary. Yet making Harvard a vocational school would not only be contradicting the respectable cultural traditions of past presidents, but also those of the University's present head. President Conant has made it plain that he desires a return to the "liberal arts"; he has spent much effort to develop a program whereby both the student and the public may become conscious of our American civilization and interested in its general progress. It does not seem that neither he nor even the Harvard student wants...