Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Wallace Graham, the President's personal physician (see Investigations), reported that two ultraviolet floor lamps, installed in the White House's Oval Room, had cut germs by 62%. General Graham planned to put germicidal lamps in other rooms; his charge is an easy victim of the common cold...
...arms: "We have assembled a Gideon's army,† small in number, powerful in conviction, ready for action. . . . We face the future unfettered by any principle but the general welfare. ... By God's grace, the people's peace will usher in the century of the common...
Coffee was a common thing...
...master for a broken-down race horse. Shy, shuffling George Washington Carver, who died in 1943, had spent a lifetime performing scientific miracles. In his tiny laboratory, which he equipped from a rubbish heap on the campus, he had created hundreds of industrial products out of the common stuff-clay, peanuts, potatoes-he found about...
...stockholder of Mission, Skelly brought two federal court suits to block the merger. He charged that Getty and other Pacific Western stockholders would get $93 million in cash for their stock (Getty's share: $79 million) while Mission stockholders would only get Sunray common stock, six shares for one of Mission. Sunray stock, said Skelly, would be of "questionable value" when the merger put $125 million of debts and senior securities ahead of the common stock. Getty's reply was that, measured by current market prices of the two stocks, Mission stockholders would get far more...