Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other courses, among them Physics C and Biology D, have comparable marking systems; but the rest, though they may shout to the skies that they have complete coordination among their sections, can give no air-tight proof of fact. They can only refer vaguely to the "common sense" of their instructors. True, the common sense of a great many staffs is extremely good, but other courses have failed utterly to bring any order or continuity out of the various theories and marking systems of their section...
...position of the American Labor Party will be discussed by Benjamin Martin, writer and cartoonist, at a general meeting of the Harvard Student Union in Eliot House Common Room this evening...
...last week 2,000 members of the New York State Vocational Association gathered in Manhattan to listen to businessmen. Their program was entitled: "The Employer Speaks to Vocational Teachers." The convention proved to be unconventional. Most uncommon thing about it was a Mr. Jones, whose views on education, common to many a hardheaded businessman, shocked the 2,000 vocationalists...
...Berdecio, friend and disciple of Artist Siqueiros, displayed a number of experimental paintings and two large murals which proved beyond any doubt that "the mechanical brush" is capable of a wide range of artistic effects. Artist Berdecio works with an air-compressing machine and a spray gun of the common industrial type (same principle as an atomizer), using not ordinary Duco enamel but a similar nitrocellulose paint. It has taken him six years, since he first started work with Siqueiros in Mexico City, to train his trigger finger to its present control. Painted on pressed wood, his two mural Portraits...
...spite of large corps of professional blood donors, and well-stocked blood banks, hospitals often need blood for emergency transfusions. Last week Dr. Harry Davis of the University of Tennessee Medical School at Memphis, reported that he had used a common medical waste product, ascitic fluid, as a successful substitute for blood...