Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commonwealth of Nations* is one of the largest associations known to history -and one of the most difficult for the rest of the world to understand. It binds together 580 million people in all parts of the world in common trade, common defense, and-up to a point-a common outlook on life. The Commonwealth nations are not joined by formal treaties. They are free to leave any time. The forces which hold them together are as subtle, delicate and elusive to the prying outsider as the forces which bind the atom. The one formal, legal Commonwealth bond: the British...
Gottfried Haberler, professor of Economics and tutor in the department of Economics, will speak on "The Possibility and Desirability of a European Economic Union" tonight in the Eliot House Junior Common Room...
...those who don't speak Latin fluently but don't want to miss some of the subtleties in the Classics Club's "Miles Gloriosus," which opens Friday, Maurice R. Snowden, instructor in Classics, will offer an explanatory talk on the play at 8 p.m. tonight in Leverett Junior Common Room...
...cloud 30,000 miles long and about 10,000 miles wide which goes around the planet's axis in a little less than ten hours. Its speed varies a few yards per second; so do the earth's westerly winds. Both, presumably, are reacting to a common cause-something in the sun. Dr. Panofsky would like to know what...
From the Revolution on, Pratt thinks, the basis of U.S. military success has been the well-tempered amateur squinting down a rifle barrel. "Don't fire till you can see the whites of their eyes" was plain common sense to colonials facing the parade-ground tactics of the 18th Century Brit ish army; later, as any World War II infantryman who sweated out the world's most thorough rifle instruction in training camp knows, the common sense of the 17703 became doctrine. Pratt leaves it to his publishers, in a jacket blurb, to add that "the national tradition...