Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thoughts, dangling loosely. He is Dr. Morris M. Weiss. Twenty-six-year-old Dr. Weiss already has two discoveries on heart disease to his credit. One discovery was that auricular fibrillation (a form of heart disease in which the heart fibres rustle like breeze-tossed leaves) was common among children. Dr. Weiss made the discovery by shrewdly interpreting the ominous irregularity of heartbeats in children sick at Montefiore Hospital. But he refused to believe his own ears, for medical literature had reported only nine such cases in all history. So he consulted with Dr. Sidney Pincus Schwartz of Manhattan...
...common faith and in co-operation of purpose, the Church releases through human lives the transforming power...
...owner of more than one share of the common stock of S. S. Kresge Co. last week bought an evening news sheet. As he turned its pages to the financial pages to investigate the condition of his investment an item caught his eye. This was its headline: KRESGE CALLED PHILANDERER. Shocked, the shareholder began to peruse the article. As he did so, his face darkened...
...inevitable decline, thus further depreciating the value of his own? It was not a problem for a market operator but one for a student of human nature. The shareholder, one such, turned to the financial page and there found the record of New York Stock Exchange trading in Kresge Common. The opening sale had been made at 71½, the closing sale at 72⅛. The next day's transactions were even more baffling to the student of humanity. In spite of further publicity to the alleged immoralities of Sebastian Spering Kresge, Kresge Common had closed...
...soloist was soso; but the splendor of the Beethoven was lost. It had slipped away between individual passages and spread into nothingness. The audience, however, was kind. Loudly it clapped the virtuosity of the 70 trim players, emphatically it approved the gesticulations of Conductor Leginska, gave the verdict common to enterprises of the gentler sex: That (for women) they had done very well...