Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Penicillin is not supposed to work against viruses-but it has been working fine against the common cold, which is often caused by a virus. During the past few months, many cold sufferers who wouldn't know a virus if one sneezed in their faces have felt better after sniffing penicillin dust up their noses from little plastic inhalers...
...Boston, everything but the schools, the squirrels and the elevated trains stopped running. The Braves were playing their first World Series in 34 years. The 41,000 seats in Braves Field had long since been sold out. In Boston Common, a battery of 100 television sets was being set up to give more Bostonians a look...
Last week students at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism got a look at a new stylebook that attempted to standardize U.S. newspaper usage. A valiant effort to combine common usage with common sense, it would soon be required reading in many a newsroom, as well as in classrooms...
...plan and scope of this book are magnificent. It is a vast epic of common American life, beginning before the landing of the Pilgrims; an attempt to state the meaning of what has come to be known as the American Dream. The first book is the story of Plymouth; the second is laid during the Revolution; the third, and most interesting, begins in 1825 and continues through the Civil...
...book opens, Justice Windom is preparing a radio address for the troops overseas, trying to define what they are fighting for: the founders of the nation had had a vision-"unity and common understanding there had been ... but the mockers came. And the deniers were heard. And vision and hope faded . . . yet there always arose enough of reserves of strength, balances of sanity, portions of wisdom, to carry the nation through to a fresh start...