Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Common sense indicates that the causes of the present economic recession are a combination of actions taken by big business...
Alcohol, Dr. Fabricant declared, has a number of effects that are useful in fighting a cold: it speeds the circulation, provides warmth and comfort, induces drowsiness, and encourages the patient to take to his bed. And bed rest "diminishes the severity of the common cold, limits its spread to others, and reduces the frequency of complications." But while Dr. Fabricant recommended the odd shot, he was not prepared to prescribe repeated doses: "Some people don't know when to stop...
...common man the scientist is the authoritative master of a truth and a power to salvation. Here lies the key to well-being on this earth. It will win a war, improve education and morals...
...fare increase, it will only boost the 1958 profit margin to 2.6%, far less than is needed to pay for jets. Domestic carriers still need $600 million, but simply cannot make the healthy profit needed to attract bank financing. Wall Street is just as cool to equity financing: common stocks of the twelve lines are selling at 64% of book value...
...desire for. religious faith. But readers may well feel that they never saw a man who looked so listlessly at the sky. Leopold shows the clear lapse of reason by which, like most lifers, he became a collector of injustices in a place where uncommon cruelty was a common failing. In short, Leopold can tell everything about prison except why he was there...