Word: plains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There are nine wagons of fine wheat in yonder plain...
Cleveland Plain Dealer...
...university; but as the only evidence to go by is circumstantial, and as all of that evidence points in the same direction, is amiss to suggest that the "Coop" take a few more risks in the stocking of their shelves with textbooks in general demand? Then the "plain citizen" whose specialty is not speed would cease to worry about missing out; the four deep, human jam at the counter would be less clamorous; and the lady at the cash register might pass a peaceful...
...University Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society has chosen the following five Seniors for membership in its first spring election: Edwin Francis Carpenter of Melrose; Arthur Ravenel Duane of Boston; Warren Francis Manning of Portiand, Me.; Charles Francis Ramseyer of Jamaica Plain, N. Y.; and Arthur Milton Young of Philadelphia...
...bailers and from sentimental philo-Semites. But they have a meaning which as Americans we have yet to penetrate. We cannot have tolerance until we recognize the real issues involved, until we perceive why social and ethnic prejudices persist, why Jew and non-Jew cannot get together and have "plain talk and high thinking" without being hampered by stultifying self-consciousness. And we are Harvard men, too; can we not reason together on that basis, and in respect for the tradition we all love, instead of skulking in our tents, like academic Achilles...