Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both interior and exterior of the new structure will be attractive and functional, Bullitt claimed. He contrasted this with defects in the present Houses. Bullitt cited misplaced common rooms and inadequate dining halls as typical faults of some of the existing buildings
...comparing 19 normal "controls" with ten patients afflicted with the disease, the group discovered that an increase of zinc in the urine indicated the severity of the case. Cirrhosis is one of the ten most common fatal diseases...
...Committee on Admissions has not always been limited to taking a mere handful of transfers. Wilbur J. Bender, Dean of Admissions, himself a transfer into Harvard, notes that "not too long ago, the one-year senior, the person who transfered to get a Harvard degree, was quite common." In the late 1940's the College took about 100 transfer students a year...
...CARGO PACTS, by which common-carrier truck lines agree to boycott cargo going to or from any company that is branded "unfair" by Teamsters Union, are invalid. NLRB reversed its 1949 decision, said that such contracts are secondary boycotts in violation of Taft-Hartley...
...Jacobs, 61, will run it. Not only will American Express cash in on the potentially rich market for foreign-car rentals, but the deal also calls for it to invest in Hertz Corp. so that it can participate in domestic profits. Express is buying 25,000 Hertz Corp. common shares at the current market price, has an option to buy 75,000 more over the next four years for no less than 42-7/8 or no more than 60g each. Says American Express President Ralph Reed; "The thing that attracted us was Hertz's dramatic growth. Those people...