Word: plains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agree with you. Anyone who takes a course in "The Intellectual Background of Chinese Literature" where, as is boldly admitted, "a reading knowledge of Chinese, is not required" is just a plain sissy, that's all. Why, it would be as bad as taking a course in Plato without a knowledge of Greek...
...strongly hinted in a Japanese war diary, not yet published in English, called Wheat and Soldiers, written by Sergeant Ashibei Hino. In it Japanese readers got their first realistic, human picture of fighting in China-a day-to-day account of thirst, hunger, homesickness; of no heroes, but plain men fighting desperately for their lives. And between the lines was something that looked suspiciously like anti-war sentiment...
Research fellowships, for work at the Atkins Institution, Soledad, Cuba, went to Carl T. Parsons, of New York, N.Y.; and Vincent G. Dethier, of Jamaica Plain, Mass...
Further information came yesterday, but not much of it. It came in the form of a cautiously worded letter written on plain stationery with the letterhead ripped off from New Windsor, Maryland. The upshot was that if Sher wanted any more dope, he would just have to put up $50,000 of the $250,000 purchase price...
...more constructive line? The "Crimson" suggested none. What constructive action, short of enlisting, can Harvard students take to help the cause they believe to be right? The answer is plain: they can only urge their government to act for them-by lifting the embargo. Allan B. Ecker...