Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there ever was a plain example to follow it is here. Let Great Britain turn resolutely to the task ready to her hand - the development of the British Empire and of her markets in the East and in South America - exactly as the United
...Federation of Great Britain: "There is real danger of war. The voice in Europe crying for peace is feeble. That voice is the voice of Great Britain and the Government is acting as a silencer of that voice. The time has come for the Govern- ment to declare in plain language it disapproves of French policy in the Ruhr...
...zone of maximum intensity was not reached until the next morning. There was found nothing standing for a distance of about 100 li (40 miles). Well built Tibetan houses were leveled to the ground and their timbers reduced to gigantic heaps of matchwood. Great rents extended along the plain for miles. Mounds and hill tops were smashed and powdered and sections of hills thrown...
Prince Gelasio Caetani, Italian Ambassador to the United States, guarded by a group of police in plain clothes, walked side by side with the Chief Justice of the United States, in the Yale University Commencement Parade. He received an honorary degree from the University...
...course of a long tirade against Hungary, Dr. Benes made it plain that Czecho-Slovakia backed France against Britain and the other Allies in the matter of refusing Hungary permission to raise an international loan freed from the obligations imposed by the Treaty of Trianon. The reason is, so far as he made it evident, that Hungary, unlike Austria, has accepted her treaty obligations only under protest...