Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council's first public session of the term was attended by 17 students in Kirkland Common Room...
With five debates slated in five days, the Debate Council faces the heaviest schedule in its history. After dropping its first two decisions, the Council will oppose Cansisius College tonight in Lowell House Junior Common Room at 8:30 o'clock...
Time was, when people heard an explosion, they just knew it was something big. The old gas tank out in Everett couldn't last forever, and the fireworks factory in Waltham, well, it was only common sense to expect that to blow sky high, and there were those manhole covers in South Boston, always popping off and scaring a lot of honest people. Yes-sir, those were the days when a bang meant trouble...
Dining Hall food fills the high spot on the agenda of tonight's Student Council meeting in Kirkland Senior Common Room--the first open meeting of the year...
...might not be a bad idea. A Cabinet of gargantuan size would force the soothsayers out into the open, and the public could select those with genuine imaginative powers from the common herd of predictors. As it is, almost every seer is compelled to inflict the same old ordinary palaver on his audience. Few variations are possible--such as suggesting Eisenhower for Secretary of Agriculture instead of Defense--and these have been nearly exhausted by now. So have the prophets; and, it is fervently to be hoped, the public will get a little tired...