Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warship. Navy censor ship hid that inglorious episode from the U, S. public, gagged war correspondents for another fortnight while the Navy made up its mind as to just where Cervera was. After Commodore Winfield Scott Schley had ventured close enough to sight a Spanish cruiser lying in plain view near the entrance to Santiago harbor, Admiral William T. Sampson determined to bottle up the enemy fleet by sinking a ship across the narrow harbor entrance. Because of his knowledge of ship construction, Lieutenant Richmond Pearson Hobson, nine years out of Annapolis, was chosen for the attempt. With seven volunteers...
...year. Up to eight students may work on one corpse, sharing the laboratory costs. These vary from $17 to $22 a body, depending upon the expenses to which Dr. Hewson's board was put to collect, preserve and distribute the stock. After dissection, remnants are packed in plain boxes, prayed over, buried in a cemetery...
Among the eminent Faculty was Albert G. Richardson, instructor in Meat Inspection. Courses included lectures in normal horseshoeing, milk observation, and just plain horse exterior. Tuition charge was only $150. There were six scholarships of $50. Instruments used and horse meat studied were of the best, though there was a "small charge for breakage of apparatus...
Lenin's wife, Krupskaya, was an "ex-tremely plain woman, really ugly," who prompted Max Eastman to say: "Lenin would probably get well if he had a pretty girl!" In Paris, Poet McKay joined the expatriate throngs, caught a hacking cough by posing in the nude, was given a check to keep him three months in southern France by John Reed's widow, Louise Bryant. He gave up a job in Rex Ingram's Nice movie studio after chasing a co-worker with a knife, and wrote his sensational novel Home To Harlem. In Morocco, McKay...
...China, biggest and oldest civilized country in the world, few people can read and write. Of those few, many fewer know the "correct," classical language, in which all Chinese masterpieces have been written, time out of mind. In 1917, when China's civilization began to come rapidly apart, plain speech (pai-hua} began to be literarily respectable, is now the accepted written language for China's literates. To give a sample of what present-day Chinese are reading, Journalist Edgar Snow last week published a translation of 24 pai-hua stories...