Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pupils saw the piece about the "Street War" [TIME, Nov. 8] and were disgusted. Such words as "tribe" for companions, "Negresses" for colored girls, "Pickaninnies" for children, did not "take" well. A common reference to the affair with correct names would be better. They like to read of colored people when anything of note is given...
From Harvard came news. There those who, by dint of native ability or sustained effort, had achieved the personal triumph of a "key," would now transfer some of their attention to furthering the common weal, and to lining their own pocketbooks. Nothing could be more practical, nothing more just than the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Tutoring Bureau, for laggard students before the mid-year examinations, announced last week. Many a smart, shrewd Phi Beta Kappan has before this undertaken tutoring as a private enterprise. Never before has a chapter of the national hierarchy of scholarship lent its official seal...
...Rube" Goldberg, famed cartoonist: "At the invitation of a New York newspaper (the Post), I went with a common reporter to visit a 'needy case.' We visited a one-time housepainter, paralyzed by paint (lead) fumes, and his wife, who was fighting to keep him from being sent to a poorhouse. In their kitchen all I could find was a loaf of bread, a small sack of flour, two bottles, one of medicine, one of sleeping fluid. Said I: 'I feel sort of rotten, riding away from here in my Minerva. After leaving them, you know...
...York (1,818,765), California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Michigan and Texas. Nevada has fewest: 23,933. Many Busses. To motor bus manufacturers and operators, the statistics of an Interstate Commerce Commission report that appeared last week were pleasant. There are in the U. S. 22,368 busses listed as common carriers. They operate over 352,800 miles of roads. Also there are 45,417 motor trucks in the transportation business, serving 611,921 miles of roads. The trackage of all the U. S. railroads (250,000 miles) is only one-fourth of all this. And yet the motor mileage does...
...That was Phoebe Snow and she has just come back from Buffalo on the Erie." Mr. Underwood, during his 26 years' presidency of the Erie* made it a road excellently operated. But he had not been able to pay his preferred dividends very often, and had never paid common dividends. That was because the Erie has been loaded with an overheavy financial superstructure. To equate the finances will be the duty of the Erie's new president, John J. ("J. J. B.") Bernet...