Word: plains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Times was indignant over French and British censors who were holding up its cables. In an editorial the Times said: "This newspaper will, as far as possible, make plain the sources of its news dispatches. It will not print rumors as fact." Same day the Times announced that it had at last abandoned its sole reliance on Associated Press (of which it was a founder) and its own men, to complete its war coverage had taken United Press service as well...
...speakers were using a unified language, it was so technical that newshawks tore their hair trying to get plain-talk stories out of the meeting. One reporter sourly observed that the only semblance of unity he saw was a gathering of the delegates around a radio to hear war bulletins...
Timed to coincide with the Harvard meeting was the publication of Dr. Neurath's new book for laymen, Modern Man in the Making,* which is written in plain and simple style, copiously illustrated with pictographs. Dr. Neurath discusses such aspects of "modernity" as urbanization, lower death rates, lower birth rates, higher literacy rates, higher suicide rates, mechanization, shows the relations between them...
With omnipotent J. Stalin sitting quietly by as a plain member of the presidium, Mr. Molotov got his laugh by suggesting that the Anglo-French emissaries asked for promises without themselves having the power to give any. "Frivolity," he called this...
...keeping water from the nasal cavities and their appurtenances." Thus wrote Dr. Hermon Marshall Taylor of Jacksonville, Fla. in the Journal of the American Medical Association last week, agitating against humans participating in that No. 1 Florida pastime: swimming. Contrary to popular belief, he said, not contaminated water but plain swimming, even in pure pools, is responsible for the boils, middle ear inflammations, mastoid infections and sinusitis that afflict thousands of swimmers every summer. Water "macerates" delicate skin, washes away protective mucous in the nose, opens up "avenues of infection" for staphylococci and other virulent bacteria. To prevent serious infections...