Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman debating club will meet in the Smith Halls Common Room at 7:45 o'clock this evening to argue the question: "Resolved. That the Harvard Stadium should be made into a Bowl...
...first time in the U. S., according to the prosecuting attorneys, that a physician had been given a death sentence as penalty for having performed an abortion, although many a one has been fined or imprisoned. The crime is fairly common, say sociologists, in the U. S. and is increasing. Although abortions are exceedingly dangerous to the health & life of a woman, they are relatively simple operations to perform. Death is usually an untoward accident...
...last week President John E. Edgerton of the National Association of Manufacturers wrote: "The common run of manufacturers of the U. S. today are in about as happy a condition as their fellow-producers, the farmers...
...Author claims only to be "a common or garden variety of person," anxious about the welfare of his family, and unable to master income tax returns. Born 42 years ago in Greensboro, N. C., (O. Henry's birthplace) he did an educational zigzag from kindergarten in Berlin to college in Denver. From childhood he was taught to paint, but during a winter (1908-09) in Paris at the Academic Julien, he began to write stories, ignoring many an art class to wrestle with plots. He has written well over a hundred short stories many of which have been published...
...this stone crypt of common place pretense...