Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a limit, he said, to the money the U.S. could invest in its own security. Added General Bradley: "It is clearly apparent that in the absence of any precipitant danger, the nation must curb within reason that share of the national income it would devote to its common defenses . . . The danger of conflict today appears to have slackened, partly because we are chewing sedatives in this constant war of nerves...
...Foolscap Sheets. Next day Halvard Lange discussed the Soviet note with Norway's cabinet. The note emphasized the fact that Norway has a common boundary with Russia-a 122½-mile strip on the Arctic tip of the Scandinavian peninsula. It asserted that the proposed Atlantic pact was an attempt by the U.S. and Britain to dominate the world. It asked Norway whether she was going to furnish the West with "air force or naval bases...
White-haired little Common Pleas Judge Samuel H. Silbert, who has ruled on 35,000 divorce cases in 25 years on the bench, unhesitatingly scrawled his signature on the fake petition. From first to last there was no hearing...
Sumner stated that it is a common film trade practice to refuse movies to non-theatrical enterprises which might compete with 32mm exhibitors. However, he did not comment on what prompted distributors like RKO Radio Pictures Inc. and United World Films to cut off the HLU film supply...
...chief weaknesses of the library is the honor system. It is common knowledge that some girls, realizing that they will not be checked at the door, walk off with books and return them at their leisure. In many cases where the number of available books is limited, a small number of girls can prevent a large number from studying. This, in turn, leads many upholders of the system to cheat on it merely to keep themselves from being cheated...