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Word: plainness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proper moment, gave a signal. Carrier-pigeons fluttered out of baskets to take the news to all the States. The flags on the mountain parted. Still veiled, but not obscured, by an April mist, the gigantic figure of a great soldier loomed, visible in detail to people on the plain 200 ft. below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Unveiling | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...plain that the entrance of Mr. Hoover into Ohio was as wise politics as it was good Americanism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Hoover | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...broad theory, I will never admit that our company broke the Jacksonville agreement ? admitting that I do not know any of the details . . ." answered Mr. Schwab. "I'm just a plain, blunt steel worker out of the mills of Pittsburgh, but no man here is more anxious to help in the situation than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Bituminous Hearings | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

Died. Erie Clark Hopwood, 51, editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer since 1920; at Cleveland; of heart failure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 26, 1928 | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...Moore, of 6 Pond Street, Jamaica Plain, was at the same time driving in the opposite direction, being about 200 feet away when the accident occurred. Arriving on the spot, he jumped from his automobile and swam to the submerged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOONDAY RESCUE SAVES THREE TRAPPED IN CAR | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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