Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rare to give it a common name, but it can be described as a large grey-black fish that resembles the common sunfish, and it has large eyes, large fins, is two and a half feet long, and weighs 20 pounds...
Queen, Victoria, granddaughter of Eng land's great Victoria, dislikes, in common with most Britishers, the bull fight. A sporting, "horsy" nation, they hate particularly to hear of horses blindfolded and torn to pieces in the ring. Marquez cried through the streets of London that bull fighting is not cruel. He proposed to prove it; to fight a bull in London; to show that speed, skill, sportsmanship which England worships are foundations of his trade. No horses would be disemboweled. Instead of killing the bull he would kiss it; tease the beast a little; stroke it; finally plant...
While visiting the show there developed the question of measuring the money's worth offered by the various manufacturers. There was no common divisor for all of the 300 cars shown. Body type was no modulus, nor price, nor size as measured by wheelbase. Yet price considered with size, as arranged in the following tables, might give some clue. Because every motor manufacturer produces a four-door sedan or a model very like one, the data pertains to that type...
Spring crew will get under way Monday February 6 at preliminary meetings for all rowing candidates in Smith Halls Common Room. Captain John Watts '28 and Coach E. J. Brown '96 will speak to all upper-class candidates for the University and 150-pound University crews at 5.30 o'clock. Later in the day at 7 o'clock the 1931 candidates will meet to hear Coach R. A. Haines and Captain Watts outline plans for the season and to allow the first year men to sign crew and eligibility cards...
...militant organizations of State university alumni in the various important cities of the West appear to be one of the chief causes of the drawing together of the far-flung grads of the institutions at Cambridge, New Haven and Princeton, but other causes are a common interest in the athletic fortunes of the three time-honored Eastern universities, and a tendency to think alike not only on athletic subjects but on educational ideals and standards as they are promulgated at these seats of learning, and there is a social element only at Chicago where, by the way, there...