Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems a pity that two public men so much misunderstood by sections of their respective constituencies as May of Bylan and Mayor Curely, cannot meet more often. It is plain to the most superficial observer that Mr. Curley is a good deal vexed with the Civil Service Board, while Mr. Bylan betrays at times an emotion that virtually is irritation; has he not said that a statement of the transit commissioner is "a characteristic piece of dishonesty". Different writers have different styles, but it is no disrespect to two famous men to say that their indignation at times is terrific...
...Jamaica Plain Neighborhood House; H. R. Bright '24, S. B. Chase 1G., A. B. Menken '25, L. W. Mott Jr. '25, H. M. Paine '25, Theodore Pearson '25, J. D. Winans 2E.S., H. A. Wood...
...Freshman Red Book Committee has announced the election of the following to the Editorial, Board; Walter Dumaux Edmonds Jr. of New York City; Philip Eisman of Boston; Stanley Goodwin French of Boston; Vincent Hatfield Hazard of Jamaica Plain; Robert Pouison Howe of New York City; Prescott Clifton Mabon of New York City; Clifford Phelps More house of Milwaukee, Wis.; David Hoadley Munroe of New York City; Lendon Snedeker of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Robert Emlen Sumner of Boston...
...possible all the way. The other is to "play the wind," edge up into it and try to gain as much as possible with every little change in its direction. The latter way may be more interesting and get more out of individual puffs, but the former is "plain sailing"; steady, sure, and the far more efficient...
...population per square mile is less than half that of Massachusetts and one-third that of England. But there are huge spots of density; as for example, in the far western province of Szechwan, four million people--the equivalent of the population of Massachusetts--life on the Chengtu Plain, an area less than twice the size of Rhode Island; and they are self-supporting at that. If China's potential resources of soil and mine and water power were developed with full effectiveness, and were served by adequate transportation facilities, her present population could have a modern standard of living...