Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representatives of the 21 independent States on the American continent met at Lima last week for their eighth Pan American Conference. Advertised purpose was to discuss common political, military and economic policies by which the "American Democracies" could oppose "European Dictatorships...
...differs from all of them in that it is the only country of the lot in a position to lend money heavily and sell industrial products. About the only things which the 21 nations have in common are their location in the same hemisphere and their anxiety to protect themselves against the growing disturbances on the other side of the world...
...whole and healthy a body has great need of a brain. The vast realm of modern commercial designing has a similar need. No candidates for this cortical job in the U. S. have appeared with sounder title to it than a half-dozen recent emigrants from Germany. Their common background: the famous Bauhaus (Building House), which had an incandescent pioneering success in Germany between 1919 and 1933. To show what this background was, Manhattan's rich, responsible Museum of Modern Art last week opened the first comprehensive show of Bauhaus work yet held...
...over-the-counter trading the company's bonds broke from 103 to 56.75, its common stock from...
...success of the symposium was owing entirely to Messrs. John D. Adams, Nathaniel Banfield, John Bonner, John Brainard, Irwin Clark, Vinton Dearing, and Eric Johnson. As you observed in your editorial, it is noteworthy that undergraduates, using tutors only as consultants, should combine their specialized talents for a common assault on a broad problem. David Worcester...