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Word: commoner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Upon reading Bernard Iddings Bell's rather brutal condemnation of the educational shortcomings in the American Common Man [TIME, April 25], I was seized with the thought that here is a situation for which a remedy must be found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 6, 1949 | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...exhibition on Central America, the last in a series on life in foreign countries, is on view this week in Dunster Large Common Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dunster Gives Exhibit | 6/2/1949 | See Source »

...Wright decided when he took over his family's Calumet Baking Powder Co. that he would not be satisfied until he doubled the fortune. Under his able management, Calumet prospered so well that Postum Co., Inc. offered him "more than it was worth" (about $29,200,000 worth of common stock), and he sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: Devil Red & Plain Ben | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Most of the contemporary masters have one point in common: their stories are laid in the future. Interplanetary flights are routine, as are the "space operas" in which heroes chase villains through dazzling stretches of the galaxy. One of the oldest forms of science fiction is the "Utopia story," in which a coherent history of an ideal world is sketched out. A popular form is the "prophecy story," in which the consequences of man's inventive ingenuity in, say, rocket ships, are thought out. Subject matter ranges from the zoology of other planets to apocalyptic portraits of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Never Too Old to Dream | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

This new biography makes it clear how Emerson struggled to keep close to the common life. It was not easy. Born in Boston in 1803, the son of a preacher, forbidden to play with "rude boys," Ralph Waldo used to hang on the fence, peering down the street in the hope that he would discover what a rude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: You Are Ours | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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