Word: plains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heflin: "The resolution [to raise the $1,000,000] speaks for itself. It was passed by the Knights of Columbus, who, of course, are Catholics, and the whole trend of the resolution shows a plain desire...
...rice farm, how with her husband and son she had moved, long before the boom, to Palatka, Fla., where she taught in school, and sang "with unusual effect" in churches. All the time she wanted to start a school of her own, a school to "make colored girls plain and decent." She began in a rented house with five girls. She got five dollars for singing at a festival and made the first payment on the site of her present Bethune-Cookman College, at that time a dump-pile. Her girls cleared away the rubbish to give the-workmen room...
...played today with professional coaches before immense throngs, it was becoming of more importance to undergraduates than their studies. President Faunce of Brown University in his annual report seems to agree with President Lowell of Harvard that football has loomed too large in the scheme of education. This is plain language...
...depending on whether it's a good year or not. Then you tie it up in a cloth like a pudding. It's very good cooked in beer, too, just a little beer, and steamed. Then when it's done-no sauce-just pour some plain champagne out of your glass over it. That's the way King Edward used to like...
...down, followed by a reading. Here Theodore Roosevelt used to come. Here now come J. P. Morgan and his partner, Thomas W. Lamont. Here Publisher George Palmer Putnam and perhaps Nov- elists Owen Wister and Arthur Train, Poets Conrad Aiken, Hermann Hagedorn, Witter Bynner-these and many a plain John Smith and Tom Jones whose only claims to fame, perhaps, were their selection of one of "Copey's" courses and their attendance upon his Monday nights at Harvard, gather around, shake hands and exchange greetings with the small man who seems to look fondly down on them all from...