Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME'S desire to lose the good will of its Southern friends. TIME will, however, continue to employ the "Mr." in referring to men who lack other titles. Would Mr. Henderson himself care to be styled plain "Henderson...
...words annoy me greatly in your issue of Sept. 7, Page 10, centre column: "Incarnadined" is too long and fancy a word for such a plain paragraph. On the same page "grooved only with the austere colophon." You are reading the dictionary too much. Page 30 - last two lines : "shoveled into the ground at Potter's field." Very inaccurate ; a corpse is too big to shovel handily. WM. E. CLARK...
Economics A, billed as a course in the "Principles of Economics", might more properly be denominated "An Introduction to Taussig". Understanding this fact, and most of the instructors take care to make it plain, the student will go into the course with eyes open and derive a great amount of benefit from it. The text book of the course is Professor Taussig's two-volume work of the same name, and no other. As a result there is a great deal of economics which the student need not know, but he must know that part of the subject contained...
...That fact has been written in fire across the world until not seers alone, but multitudes of plain people of every tongue, tribe and na- tion under Heaven are beginning to see the truth once so incredible...
...post in the growing Standard Oil Co. when begged to do so by John D. Rockefeller (see Page 10), although-after handing over his business to his son, he found idleness so little to his taste that he returned as Secretary of his son's company, The Cleveland Plain Dealer found his life significant for a simple social courtesy which, long ago, he was called upon to perform. "MARK HANNA'S BEST MAN DIES," was the ironic headline of his obituary...