Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when he got to Washington he discovered that a Mrs. Christine Putnam Johnston, of Hanceville, Ala. (pop. 650) had beaned him with a legal dornick. Christine, a tall, redheaded divorcee, had asked the Cullman County circuit court to declare Big Jim her common-law husband and the father of her 22-month-old son. She had also told reporters a tale of unrequited love...
...final treaty would also include economic clauses. France and Italy have been discussing plans for a customs union for five months, will soon sign an agreement on economic cooperation. The Benelux countries have already set up a common customs system. But Britain, staking her economic future on imperial arrangements in the Commonwealth and Empire, has held back from economic merger with continental countries...
...Chile will demand a hearing on Antarctica at the Bogota conference this spring, González Videla intended to handle things in his own direct-action way . for the time being. With Bogotá-bound Pascual la Rosa, Argentine Foreign Office big shot, he signed an accord for a common front against Britain and negotiation of disputed Argentine-Chilean claims in the polar regions...
...been able to do much for a victim of apoplexy (stroke) until he recovers from the initial shock. Now Drs. N. C. Gilbert and Geza de Takats, of Chicago's St. Luke's Hospital, think that they may have a treatment in procaine (the local anesthetic common in dentistry). In the Journal of the American Medical Association, the doctors reported last week that procaine, injected into certain nerves of the neck as soon as possible after a stroke, seems to relieve spasms in the brain's blood vessels...
Really topnotch Harvard swimming teams have not been a common slight in the Cambridge sports picture over the past few years, so the accumulated hopes of nearly a decade will be riding on Hal Ulen's undefeated charges this afternoon at New Haven when they face a Yale squad with an equally brilliant record for Eastern League laurels as well as traditional H-Y honors...