Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent removal of the hour exam requirement has revealed more clearly a sadly neglected part of the educational value of finals. This value is derived through handing the bluebook back to the student with comments to indicate faults that may be avoided in the future. It has been common practice to return hour exams so that the student can take whatever complaints he may have to the grader for discussion. No such provision has been maintained on January and May finals, however. If sufficiently interested, the student can enclose a posteard on which his grade is returned...
Student Council proceedings will be on view tonight to any and all comers when the group holds its semi-annual open meeting at 7:15 o'clock in the Union's Upper Common Room...
...Statler, the common denominator busily multiplied himself. Will Clayton arrived for lunch to give him much-needed advice on how to set up a Government bureau-in this case one of the most prodigious bureaus in history. Lawyer "Tex" Moore arrived. He and Hoffman sallied forth for a conference with John Steelman. They returned to the Statler. State Department officials arrived with sheafs of reports, requisitions, and advice on what phases of the interim program needed immediate action...
...Baldwin and two other Wallace coworkers. Police dispersed the mob. Cried Henry: "The blame for this violence lies with the press for giving misinformation." Inside the hall an uneasy audience of 500, most of them well dressed, settled back to listen to the champion of peace, appeasement, and the "common man," and to contribute $1,000 to his cause...
...make the best of the largest part of your country. . . ." For the foreseeable future, Russian obstruction had made one Germany impossible. On the far side of the Iron Curtain was "unity," Robertson said, but it was "unity with the Czechs and other people of Eastern Europe in a common bondage...