Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary Kellogg is perfectly right, and we ought to be astonished that we had to wait ten years for an expression of such simple, common sense truth in an official document. But Secretary Kellogg's proposal is only a generic beginning...
...have told her, jubilantly, that in 1927 he cleared $163,968, and in the first five months of 1928 he made $83,161. He may have told her, last week, that a syndicate was offering the public 40,000 shares of Louis Philippe, Inc., cumulative participating convertible Class A common stock. She would not have understood the financial terms, but she would have known that she did well when she led her little boy to a kitchen stove in Paris...
...yellowish-white product of whale oil known as spermaceti is at the base of most creams, most lipsticks. Vegetable dyes provide the color. The beet is a common source of red coloring, as is the European plant alkanet, and cochineal, crushed from the dried bodies of the female Coccus Cacti, a Mexican and Central American beetle with a fondness for cactus. Plants and insects yield carminic acid. Aniline will make lipstick indelible; benzoin makes it kissproof...
...even the finest of U. S. singers their inferiors by far. What last week was their horror to learn that one of the night-club entertainers who had been compared to them was not only their artistic inferior but a member of the lowest class of civilized creatures, a common bargee, the U. S. counterpart of those yellow specimens who live on rafts and junks in the rivers of inferior China. Their annoyance was not unnatural; yet, had they known the true facts concerning the bargee-"Geisha-girl" their annoyance would have vanished and, since Geisha girls are intelligent, they...
...square foot. At this rate, all the 2,800,000 square feet on which the Illinois Central controls the air rights would produce an annual 5% rental of $6,300,000 or a revenue sufficient to pay more than $4.75 on each share of its common stock...