Word: plains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...translator is Prof. James Moffatt of Glasgow, famed prototype of Scottish plain living, high thinking, hard wor-r-rking. His was the first of many famous new translations of the New Testament. His translation of the Old Testament may be complete; but the book which Publisher Doran put on sale contained only the books Genesis to Esther inclusive?i. e., about half the Old Testament, the half in which most of the events and incidents of Jewish history are recorded...
Several facts, however, are plain. The Reserve system is today the richest and most powerful central banking institution in the world; it has replaced even the historic Bank of England as the centre of the world's money market. It has furthermore apparently survived an agrarian political attack which a century ago wrecked both the First and Second U.S. Banks...
...Auckland did not mince matters. He had come to tell the Nation the plain, unvarnished truth. He had come to deliver a much-needed punch and characteristically he hit with all the force of his intellect. Said...
...With Lusty Strides he measur'd half the Plain...
When he wishes to make new chemical researches, no labor or thought is required of him. All is done by divine inspiration. "I never have to grope for methods: the method is revealed at the moment I am inspired to create something new," says he. The conclusion is plain. Only those discoveries will be made which are in accord with the doctrines of the church, and if any discoveries do not agree with church tenets, it is a plain mandate to change the beliefs of the church to accord with the new revelations. If Darwin had only employed such methods...