Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President may have arched surprised eyebrows last week, if he read a despatch from Argentina saying that famed news organ La Prensa, of Buenos Aires had carried an article by David Lloyd George in which occurred the sentence: "Mr. Baldwin [British Premier] has much in common with the malleable and garrulous Coolidge...
...were "a Parliamentary farce," and strode from the House, followed by all Laborite M. P.'s. In their absence cloture was rushed through. Sober reflection caused Mr. Clynes to realize that he had overplayed drama into melodrama. Next day he and the Labor cohorts were back on the common-sense wooden benches of the House...
Last summer Thomas Cochran, J. P. Morgan & Co. partner, about to sail for Europe, spoke unwarily to a newspaper reporter, predicted that by the summer of 1928 General Motors common stock would be worth $300 a share (TIME, Aug. 16). Then General Motors declared a 50% stock dividend. If the revaluated G. M. C. stock reached $200, Mr. Cochran's prediction would be intrinsically accurate. Last week that contingency happened-G. M. C. stock sold on the New York Stock Exchange at $200.50 a share...
Then things began to go badly for him. Dagny Kielland was unable to find in Nagel any of the well rubbed familiar surfaces, common to all men, by which people are accustomed to identify, if not to understand, other people. He remained a mystery to her. Nagel realized that it was impossible for her to penetrate the dark secrets of his mind. With the teeth of despair already in his heart, he began to see madness waddling toward him like an enormous lizard. "Then he made for the harbor at a run, the back of his waistcoat showing white...
Music will be provided by the Harvardians, formerly the Gold Coast Orchestra, and by Hal Kemp and his North Carolinians. One will play in the Smith Halls dining room and the other in the common room. Parking regulations as announced by the members of the Jubilee Committee last night stated that no cars would be allowed in the drive way in the front of Smith and Standish Halls...