Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...originally refused to release any films to the HLU "after several local theaters had protested." The action had been based on common trade practice which allows an exhibitor to complain if non theatrical 16mm showings compete with a 35mm theater...
...Granville, Ohio. It involved no new scientific principles, but was an improved application of old ones. Tests using rabbits are slow, may take two days; frogs or toads imported from South America or South Africa are expensive ($4 to $10 apiece). Urine from a pregnant woman injected into a common male leopard frog (Rana pipiens) causes emission of spermatozoa. The test has also proved valuable for finding out whether, in doubtful cases, a miscarriage is inevitable. The test can be done in two hours, in a doctor's office, and is 98% accurate...
...spry man with a Germanic love of theory, Marcks makes no bones about what he thinks art should be. "It must be stimulating," he says. "I reject any art that simply amuses. Stimulation, as I interpret it, means leading men to the eternal laws, away from what is common, usual and mean...
Nowhere in the constitution is there a provision against candidates for office counting ballots. Common sense, however, does seem to rule against it. Two of the three girls who counted ballots were candidates...
They used to serve coffee and conversation in the common room after dinner, but this custom has given way during the last term to the television hour, which lasts all night and draws bored policemen and Cambridge gamins as well as a good portion of the House residents. All in all, Winthrop has the best television setup in the College to go with its other superlative attributes