Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doubtless Mr. Cohen's knowledge of the Soviet situation is most profound: but his statements on Mussollni make plain that his knowledge of Fascism in the U. S. is altogether piteous and incomprehensible coming from one who claims to be well versed in international affairs. Joseph F. Solano...
James Stanley Jennison, of Cambridge, Malcolm Ferguson Stewart, of Jamaica Plain...
...Make an orange syrup by boiling together for five minutes one half cupful each of water, sugar and thin shavings from the rind of one orange. Cool and strain. Add the juice of four limes or one-fourth cupful of bottled lime juice. Dilute with one pint of iced plain or charged water." Mint Julep-"Five lemons, one bunch fresh mint, one and one-half cups of sugar, one-half cup water, three bottles of ginger ale. Combine ingredients except ginger ale and let stand one half hour: add ginger ale and pour over ice; serve in small glasses...
...Dewey is a bridgebuilder. Seeing the gulf between savant and citizen, he works to span it, building out on one side by educating the plain man, on the other by rousing the pedant to action...
...among the many now-famed names and faces which Barber Bratfish has known ahead of the world are Homer Guck (1904, now publisher of the Chicago Herald & Examiner), William Patterson MacCracken (1909, until lately Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics), Arthur Burton Rascoe (1911-13) now associate editor of Plain Talk), Lawrence H. Whiting (1913, now president of Indiana Limestone Co.), Charles Glore (1910, now manager of Field, Glore & Co., investments). And in the class of 1907 Barber Bratfish well knew the stripling figure of Harold Higgins Swift, now vice president of Swift & Co. (packers) and still a familiar figure...