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Word: commonality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Article 2 of the Anglo-American rum treaty declares that the U.S. rights of search and seizure of British vessels "shall not be exercised at a greater distance from the coast of the U.S. . . . than can be traversed in one hour by the vessel suspected.'' Common practice has made this treaty-line twelve miles offshore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Internationale | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...common estimate is that for every attractive young white man in Washington there are five attractive young white ladies, owing to the preponderantly feminine personnel of the Federal Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Grandson Grant | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

Less than a year later Whitehurst died, leaving an estate of $280,000 and no will. Last week the Maryland Court of Appeals decided that this marriage was valid under the laws of New York, that Claire Ulrich was, by common law, Mrs. Whitehurst. As his widow, and over the objections of his mother and brothers, she was entitled to administer and share in his estate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Common-Law Marriage | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...sounder mutual understanding of national characteristics which would reduce the friction arising from lack of sympathy. The former unreasoning dislike for Teutonic culture which was so prevalent during the World War has obviously died out, and the unfortunate hysteria of America of 1920 has been cured by common sense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICA COMES OF AGE | 3/30/1929 | See Source »

...House Plan is to go further than that, it would seem advisable to have the two types of residents sit elbow to elbow in the dining hall. Equally discordant is the idea of a separate commons for the instructors. While the older men might well have a small, auxiliary smoking room for their special use, to establish an individual commons apart from the students spells defeat to any objective of bringing both types of men together in an informal, friendly fashion. Where there must be continued visiting back and forth between two common rooms, the line of least resistance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUT OF TUNE | 3/26/1929 | See Source »

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