Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...death of Lord Curzon removes from British public life a great imperialist, great in name and great in ability. As plain George Curzon he went to Eton where Esher, Minto, Balfour, the Beresfords, Midleton, Rosebery?all men who have left their mark on the pages of Britain's recent history?were closing the chapters of their Eton life. From Eton he went to Oxford's scholar college, Balliol, where like Lord Oxford and Asquith, he carved a brilliant academic career...
Associated Press reports major conflagration in Tokyo. You may express to the Foreign Office the profound sympathy of this Government that this misfortune has fallen upon a city which was already struggling so gallantly against adversities. You may further make plain our hope that the Japanese authorities will have no hesitation in calling upon us if there is any assistance we can lend...
This month, anxious parents saw for the first time the program of this year's Secondary School Entrance Examinations made plain in a catalog, with the requirements for each subject. Examinations in English and Mathematics will be given on June 2, in Latin and French on June 3. There will be three examinations in each subject-for seventh, eighth and ninth grades. Each school will administer its own examination and correct its own papers. "What the child must know," is set forth in detail for each subject in the catalog...
...trail's plain as dawn...
Dissecting these figures by Business School methods of analysis, it is plain that in this degenerate age there is only one tooth brush for every 2.7 persons or, to put it more clearly, one person to .37 of a tooth brush. Now supposing that there are 10,000,000 people totally toothless out of a population of 110,000,000, including babies to four months, prize fighters, victims of lock jaw, and octogenarians; and further supposing 10,000,000 souls who, for one reason or other, do not believe in this modern luxury such as Holy Rollers and vegetarians, there...