Word: plainest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...homemaker, [and] her education should not completely blind her to the ultimate career which she will follow .... It is in the mental attitude of the woman when she is faced with the problems of the child and the home that the shortcomings of the college curriculum show up plainest. Her "broadened" mind is humiliated by the trivia of kitchen, baby, and husband which consume all of [her] precious time...
...same bitter circumstances that threaten to transform decent patriotism into indecent nationalism are conspiring also to choke democracy's growth. The saddest and plainest diagnosis I have heard came from a brainy, sober man of 42 who has fought Fascism all his life-Waldemar von Knoeringen, head of Bavaria's Socialist Party...
...largest town in North America, seemed to him the most civilized in the colonies. Even so, he found that "The middling sort of people here are to a degree dissingenuous and dissembling, which appears even in their common conversation in which their indirect and dubious answers to the plainest and fairest questions show their suspicions of one another." But the women, added Hamilton, were "for the most part, free and affable as well as pritty. I saw not one prude while I was here...
This first book is the impressive result of a bold, if not wholly successful, effort to write the Great American Novel. It is also the latest and plainest sign that native American and recent European traditions of art and thought can flow together and that this cultural Mississippi, though full of snags and shallows, may be one of the brightest things moving in the world. Raintree County is a historical novel of Indiana by an Indiana boy; it is also a philosophical novel (a rare thing in U.S. fiction), and a studied work of art that is striking enough...
...Amish of Wayne, Holmes and Tuscarawas Counties, Ohio, are among the ' plainest of the picture-book Plain People. Their men wear buttonless dark blue overalls and jackets, wide-brimmed black hats and beards. Their women go in bonnets and shoe-length black dresses. With fierce rectitude, they forbid themselves automobiles, electricity, telephones and tractors, rather than engender the sin of pride...