Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frau Koch, widow of a former Buchenwald commandant, is known as the Bitch of Buchenwald. At her trial she was convicted of having prisoners beaten to death, of using their skins as lampshades and other ornaments, and of taking part in the common design of cruelty in the camp. The most damaging testimony was presented by her own defense witnesses...
When a team is not in good condition, sprains, pulled muscles, and charley-horses are as common as Roosevelt dimes. Valpey scrimmages his squad every day and the players gayly test each other's stamina with right hooks to the midsection. Yet Cripples Corner has only one Varsity resident and the Crimson is in the best shape since...
Many editorials never come up before policy meetings. If an editorial is printed backing a drive for blood donors, don't think it is the product of furious discussions. If five hundred students are given sleeping bags and told to live in the Common when the Houses are three-quarters empty, there is no meeting. Just a swift but thorough investigation, and a thundering editorial...
...took the dons less than one hour to accept the offer, but it would be months before Oxford's senior common rooms tired of the great guessing game the gift had started. From Paris last week came one guess about Monsieur X's identity: Leon Fabre, 62, multi-millionaire head of the Fabre shipping lines, and a postwar resident...
Despite booming meat sales, the packers' profits have been less than those of other food processors. After paying its first common dividend in ten years in the first quarter of the year, Armour decided not to pay a dividend this summer. Said Armour's Board Chairman George A. Eastwood: "Our earnings on meat last year were at the rate of about one-fifth of a cent a pound. Obviously a profit of one-fifth cent cannot be responsible for the increase which has taken place in meat prices since before the war." Nevertheless, the suit helped drive packing...