Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...each building has been worked out on what architects call "a structural common denominator"--meaning that one basic plan or blueprint covers the entire project. All double rooms will be exactly the same size, and to make two single suites the builders need only fit an additional partition down the middle...
...Some scholars hold that it was written by Gerard Groote, founder of the Brethren of the Common Life, by whom Thomas was trained...
...revises the standard of conduct and cooperation which it expects from its members it will become merely a sentimental fiction. There is no virtue in mere size-'the larger the assembly of sheep, the more it appeals to the wolves.' A sprawling collection of nations with no common obligations, with no coordinated line of action in world affairs, and at odds with each other makes up an international system which is a travesty of the word Commonwealth...
...remote Marbial Valley, where illiteracy was the rule. To the valley six months ago went a team of UNESCO educators to begin the experiment. Last week, Lake Success announced that the project was being suspended. The UNESCO officials, said U.N., had come down with something almost as common in the Marbial Valley as illiteracy: malaria...
Guard of Honor is sure not to please those who are accustomed to novels that passionately beat generals over the head with the common soldier and intolerant whites with the oppressed Negro. For Author Cozzens has performed the far more courageous and more painful job of putting down ugly facts. Unsentimentally, grimly, he says out loud what is often left unsaid-that in the U.S. "the big majority may feel that a Negro is a human being all right; but when you add that they want to see him treated fairly, you're wrong . . . The big majority does...