Word: plains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Army engineers had not yet completed their survey and report on the Mississippi Basin, upon which the committee's flood control bill must largely be based. So the committee heard witnesses and suggestions. The first hearing made it plain why Chairman Reid had called his meeting early...
...High Snobbishness. However, a closer examination of the actual facts does not fail to prove that his idea is in reality nothing but a mirage. (Empty dream.) Unfortunately, our brothers go to Harvard. They use a flat "a", are perfectly acquainted with the letter "r", are common, lowdown, plain vulgar gentlemen. So are their friends, when observed intimately. So are their friends, when observed intimately. And their friends...
...Plain Language. First Assistant Postmaster General John H. Bartlett, who last month instructed postmasters to omit departmental slang* from their reports and to use "every day" language instead (TIME, Oct. 31), last week issued a statement to his subordinates urging them to see that letters stamped for special delivery should really be specially delivered. He pointed out that the Special Delivery stamp is a contract between the mailer and the U. S. He invited public criticism of the special delivery service in future. Quite as notable as the frankness of the statement, which implicitly admitted a shortcoming of the Department...
...committee made it plain that it had arrived at its decision with due regard to the fact that Caldwell's ineligibility under the rule affecting athletes who had represented another university in a sport are ineligible to play for Yale in that branch of athletics, had been raised by both Princeton and Harvard, and based its action on the fact that to set the precedent for breaking the rule would be a dangerous step to take...
Payson Dana '04, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the CRIMSON and Civil Service Commissioner for Massachusetts, died yesterday afternoon at the Faulkner Hospital, Jamaica Plain, after a lingering illness. The funeral will be held on Friday afternoon at the First Parish Unitarian Church, Brookline...