Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Together with worldwide enthusiasm and wishes for success, the French flyers held the public confidence in their attempt. So common have the wonders of science become that in the average mind there is no admission of chance of failure, no realization of the impotence of modernity's most trusted inventions against the still uncurbed forces of wind and wave...
...very few years airplane trips to Europe from America will not be considered unusual affairs. They will be made by business men and vacationers, and will be thought of as perfectly natural means of journeying. No doubt, within a few years, trips like I am now making will be common. People will be taking airplane trips around the world for pleasure...
David Lloyd George was dining at the Savoy. His white Welsh mustache trembled slightly as he masticated a chop. In his pocket was an ordinary overcoat check; but the attendant, awed, had hung the coat in a closet distinct from the common coatroom...
...believe that your re-election would be in harmony with the spirit of-the common law which has given you your present power...
...United Press, a Scripps-Howard news association, Mr. Coolidge told the offending editors to their faces that when any newspaper adopts the editorial attitude on American foreign policy which Scripps-Howard has pursued, every informed person knows that it has fallen from the high estate which is our common heritage, and becoming no longer worthy of regard, is destined to defeat and failure. No American can profit by selling his own country for foreign favor...