Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this sounded like the bad old days. From 1925 to 1946, American Woolen made the goods for one out of every six men's suits in the U.S. But the wool industry, in general, was in a slump until the war years, and American paid no dividends on common stock. Then, as 10,000,000 ex-servicemen rushed to buy their first civvies, American Woolen found itself so prosperous that in 1946 it declared a $12 common dividend, saw its stock soar from 29½ to 70¾. In 1948, it rang up the biggest sales ($197 million...
...Harvard intellectuals who go along with the Communists have "one common altruistic dream," adds Griffin, namely that "they all share the vision of a one world utopia...
...departure, first in the magazine's 73-year-old history, came as a surprise to both Harvard and Radcliffe students. Opinion across the Common tended to be favorable to the plan, most students viewing this increased tie with the College warmly...
constructed by a group of Tech students, and featuring a motor mechanism behind, Gootenberg refused to say whether the duck would be drinking beer or other intoxicants common to the bird's former habits...
Five Nieman Fellows representing different branches of journalism agreed last night in the Lowell House Junior Common Room, at the last of the Career Conferences, that a job as a reporter is a necessary beginning for specialization in the newspaper field...