Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have at some time in the past applied for admission to one, today go questionnaires from the Council Committee on Houses asking for an expression of preference for one of two possible temporary solutions for the present situation: the "associate member" plan, and a plan for a common dining room for out-of-House...
Born. To Sir Oswald Mosley, 42, Great Britain's blackest fascist, and his wife, The Honorable Diana Freeman-Mitford, 28: a son, their first common child; in London, same day their marriage was revealed (TIME, Dec. 5). Formally announcing the birth in his paper Action, Sir Oswald explained why his marriage had been kept secret: "We leave to financial democracy the custom of a man taking his wife around in public...
...Moscow's Ail-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine. Most coalescent twins (the result of incomplete separation of the ovum) are born dead or die soon after birth. Because Irina and Galina lived, acted like normal babies, they were a unique boon to researchers. Although they shared a common circulatory system, they had separate hearts whose rhythms did not coincide, separate stomachs, separate nervous systems. From the fact that they often slept at different times Soviet scientists evolved further proof of Pavlov's theory of sleep: that it is initiated not by poisons in the blood stream...
...they turned around, after the signing, to thank him, he had disappeared." The Ballards' prayer: "Let us have every good thing, including money." Backstage in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, while the Philharmonic's fiddles were a tuning, its doorman and its conductor, Londoners both, celebrated a common birthday. Augustus ("Gus") Wade, a short, military Britisher with grey handle bar mustaches, who for 45 years has been as much a part of Carnegie Hall as the plaster lyre that adorns its ceiling, was 83. John Barbirolli was 39. Together the birthday boys bent over a large white cake...
...Winthrop House debators will meet the Dudley-Little team tonight at 7:30 o'clock in Winthrop Junior Common Room to argue the resolution: "That the United States adopt a policy of Pan-American isolation...