Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that all truth is as rigid as 2 times 2 makes 4. If he is logical, rejecting the Roman Catholic faith on account of its "rigidity," he will have to deny all truth. The poor man will have to reject the fact that the world is round, that the common housefly usually has two wings-to cite only a couple of examples...
Esthetic freshmen haven't been slighted in the new plans, Peterman pointed out. Professor John P. Coolidge '35, of the Fogg Art Museum helped with the remodeling by lending ten contemporary American watercolor paintings for the main Common Room. Also a new Steinway grand piano will be moved into the Upper Common Room...
During the past few days, painters have been working in the second floor Common Rooms, and progress indicates that maintenance men will soon be able to squeeze in the four or five tables...
...Shots . . ." Out of this night he brought, incredibly, a diary. He wrote it, at unthinkable risk, on fine paper captured from the Russians and used in the camp as toilet tissue. He concealed the diary in a succession of common breadboards, split into thin halves, hollowed out inside, and glued together again. He began the diary in the expectation of some day showing it to his wife, but soon "it became a private manner of forgetting...
March 24, 1945 (on a camp at Bergen-Belsen). "It was a common thing to get hold of a corpse to sleep on, so as to keep dry. Nor was cannibalism a rare phenomenon. One Norwegian saw a prisoner cut the liver out of a dead body...