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Word: commonality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second meeting of the 1931 Debating Club will be held tomorrow night at 5 o'clock in the Smith Halls Common Room, it was announced last night by W. P. Chapman '31, temporary president of the club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1931 Debaters Meet Tomorrow | 12/13/1927 | See Source »

...Freshman hockey season will be launched officially tonight in the Smith Halls Common Room, when J. P. Chase '28, captain of the University sextet, and Coach Joseph Stubbs '20 will talk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1931, Hockey Meeting Tonight | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...solid grounds for such an understanding Sir Esme sketched lengthily and wittily what he deemed the superficial differences but fundamental similarities between Britons and citizens of the U. S. Concluded he: "Whatever the differences between Americans and English may be-and they are many-they have at least in common these two great ideals in government that were brought here by the Pilgrim Fathers and the other early English settlers, because they have inherited them in the blood: 'No taxation without representation'; and, 'No revolution against the declared will of the majority.' To that extent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sir Esme Speaks | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

Will Mahoney, as he waved above a flight of stairs in his perilous and finally disastrous clog, caused even famed aviators who viewed the first showing to shiver with terror. Elsewhere he made aviators, critics and common people laugh ecstatically. Trini, billed as the star, offered some sex-appeal and stamped her Spanish feet. One Kitty O'Connor gave cry with what seemed practically a baritone in her joyfully accepted rendition of the song hit, "We'll Have a New Home in the Morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...their rhetoric to plausibility or probability, to conditions, facts or prospects or to anything resembling cause and effect. They have rancor and timidity, physical flinching, addled reasoning, suspicion, pompous illusions and gross fears, but never anything that can be laid alongside a fact or will stand a shot of common sense. Yet this unreason infests the professorial mind, and the men who are given their responsible positions to teach youth to meet life prepared to understand it, deal with it and make the best of it, send their pupils after moonbeams, chimera and the blood-sweating behemoth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Militancy | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

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