Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Quentin, Calif., where inmates are enabled to take extension work in the State University at Berkeley by correspondence. There Warden James Bernard Holohan, a firm-fisted 200-pounder, guards over 5,000 inmates. Among them are Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), killer of his common law wife, now chief of the convict fire department; Clara Phillips, who killed a lady intimate of her husband with a hammer; famed Thomas J. Mooney and Warren Billings, sent up for life from San Francisco on evidence since found to be perjured. Currently famed is Mrs. Frances Leano, for whom San Quentin can provide...
...cannot fail to hit the snake's head when you pull the trigger. Texan Howe experimented, fired many a shot at many a Crotalus adamanteus atrox, missed their heads again and again, then angrily wrote: "It is such bunk as this that is making the development of common sense in this country slow...
...Death as was Britain's beloved George V last November. His signed articles in Soviet news organs had ceased to appear. Comrades were fearful. On Stalin's life, as on Mussolini's, depends a whole regime. Suddenly one night last week the saturnine, enigmatic Dictator, who dresses like a common workman, holds no office in the Government and rules in all-potent obscurity as Secretary General of the Communist Party, rent the clouds of fear and rumor by a dramatic appearance...
...comprehensive examination the student must do independent research, and is held for a knowledge of one particular field. His interest in that work is greatly stimulated. When undergraduates and professors are associated in a like activity their intimacy is inevitable; and this in turn leads to a common intellectual interest and a common place of work. Here may be found an atmosphere where minds may grow, and, "by attrition," to repeat President Lowell's words, "provoke one another." Daily Californian...
Tonight at 7.15 o'clock, the Class of 1933 will hold a mass meeting, in the Smith Halls Common Room. The gathering will be in celebration of the game which the Freshman team plays with Yale 1933 Saturday...