Word: plains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Neither, Mr. Huddleston wished to make plain, was he. "It may be a very good thing that our law be changed," he remarked sarcastically, "so that Cabinet officials may contribute something to the wisdom of the matter under discussion as well as their handsome appearance...
Rain turned the red Georgia earth to clay. Manager Walter Johnson, drawn and underweight from influenza, sat on a bench in plain clothes and a raincoat and watched the Giants in the year's first game beat the Newark Bears, 8 to 0. Bill Terry, infielder, knocked a home run the first time at bat. "Gee, I wish I could get out and throw a few" Johnson said, shifting on the bench...
...Governor General had said: "It is not within the province of the Governor General to determine the future relations of the inhabitants of these Islands to the United States . . . I lay particular stress upon industrial and economic progress." That seemed plain enough. It means that Col. Stimson would have little patience with Independence propagandists...
Said J. H. Furay, vice president in charge of foreign news of the United Press: "The [Western Union] regulation is really not new. The United Press has not been using contractions for some time, and the experience has shown us that skillful filers are able to say in plain English, condensed and skeletonized, the same things without using 'cablese' and in the same number of less words...
...entire argument reduces itself to the question of why Mussolini wants this country. Why does he place the power of a modern Roman Empire variety before the ideals of a League of Nations." It seems plain that he laughs at the League because he feels secure of the united Italy behind him. If he is dreaming of building up a second Roman Empire, starting with Tyrol, he might well continue with Corsica and Savoy. He justifies his annexations of Tyrol by saying that the Brenner Pass is the natural boundary between Italy and Austria and the logical place to separate...