Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pump outstretched hands. "It's mighty nice of you to come down to the station," drawled he to some. With others he exchanged news about the wheat crop or the grasshopper plague. By bedtime thousands of Kansans had been convinced that Alf Landon was still the same plain, friendly, likeable fellow he had always been...
Specifically Major Attlee took the Prime Minister to task for having blamed the failure of Sanctions on the U. S. when Mr. Baldwin fortnight ago said: "Now there has been a great deal said about oil. The plain reason why an oil sanction was not put in force was that enormous quantities of oil came from a country that isn't a member of the League of Nations and which we had no reason to believe would prohibit the exportation of oil. This country is the United States...
That the buyer needed more factory floor space has been plain for months. During the fiscal year through March, Zenith earnings were $1,212,000, biggest in its history. In the previous twelvemonth profits were $10,000. Orders placed at its May showing footed up to $4,187,000 compared to $1,200,000 at last year's showing. Zenith stock has risen steadily from $1.25 per share a year ago to a new high of $24 last week...
...toppling European monarchs off their thrones, inspiring oppressed peoples to rebel, and in twisting world public opinion around until it cried for Democracy there has never been anything like the original French Revolution. Last week in many lands grave heads were wondering what plain Jean Frenchman, a million strong, may now be starting with his spontaneous and uncontrolled strikes (TIME, June 8, et seq.), his gay singing of Red songs in the anxious streets of Paris, his candid nose-thumbing, half amused and half contemptuous, at new Premier Blum of the Third Republic...
...thousand miles due south of Manhattan lies Punta Arenas, largest town in Patagonia, southernmost city in the world. Few tourists find their way there. Patagonia is a forbidding land of glacial mountains, dense forests and windswept plain, where women are scarce and the men are hard cases. Not because they wanted to avoid trippers but because the idea ex- cited them, Herbert Childs and his newly-married wife went to Patagonia on their honeymoon. She had been there before, had heard tales of an English settler far in the interior who might be good copy for a book. Getting...