Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known that he was sharply disappointed by the postponement of the preliminary disarmament conference of the League of Nations. He was quite polite of course, but made it plain that he did not like the postponement even a little...
...leaded gasoline should be colored, to distinguish it from plain gasoline and warn people not to use it for cleaning clothes, washing hands...
...incomprehensible as the incomprehensibilities they try to explain. The highest service the explanatory lecture can perform is to accustom the student to the mere mechanics of his surroundings. For introduction to intellectual deeps and desires, there is a better path, namely, the instructor himself. To him who makes plain without making easy, makes colorful without making tawdry makes profound without making involved, initiates will gladly turn. Charles Kingsley's "Let not the sourfaced teach morals lest they create a distaste for virtue", applies also to education, and with unmitigated thoroughness...
...there would not be all this 'mystery'; if the interest is high, it proves that Italy is bankrupt big debt for a dead horserices so that the U. S. got a profit out of it. Twenty-five cents on the dollar is not much, they argued, but as a plain business proposition it was that or nothing. "What else do you propose?" they asked. "Would you have us go to war to collect...
...curriculum of all courses in Public Speaking is the subject of an article in the current Alumni Bulletin by R. S. Fanning '23 Although the existence of English B destroys the assertion that Harvard undergraduates are altogether without instruction in the art of speaking in public, it is nevertheless plain that the passing of English 10 and kindred courses has left behind a distinct void in the structure of courses which ought not long to go unfilled...