Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ever since 1920, the need for reapportionment has been simply one of common honesty. Being a simple matter of honesty there was naturally no crusade in favor of it. The Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals, raucous in defense of the Eighteenth Amendment, never mentioned it. President Coolidge never mentioned it. Candidate Smith never mentioned it?because as many Democrats as Republicans had opposed it. Probably not one voter in a thousand had the least idea that the question of reapportionment existed...
Babies' Hands. In his memoirs Signor Francisco Nitti, the Italian Prime Minister (1918-20) now declares: "During the War France, in common with other Allies, including our own Government in Italy, circulated the most absurd inventions to arouse the fighting spirit of our people. The cruelties attributed to the Germans were such as to curdle our blood. We heard the story of poor little Belgian children whose hands were cut off by the Huns. After the War a rich American, who was deeply touched by the French propaganda, sent an emissary to Belgium with the intention of providing a livelihood...
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...will be a difficult one, and will involve a certain number of mistakes. There is the danger on the one hand of uncongeniality; on the other of too great accord and insufficiently diversified interests. To be successful, the Houses must function as something considerably more than mere dormitories or common eating halls...
...integral in each of its component parts, that it is generally defined in terms of entities whose prominence shuts off the view in other directions. To the undergraduate, Harvard is Harvard College; the other departments of the University exist for him as places where the residents have nothing in common with him but a search for knowledge which is so much more intense than his own that even it is somewhat foreign...