Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the new House library is opened, the present library in McKinlock will be used as a common room, for meetings and concert programs. The library building will include a reading room, tutors' offices, and seminar rooms, and is connected to McKinlock by an enclosed passageway...
Administrative sluggishness is a common phenomenon and is most evident in various small matters, such as the placing of stop signs. Disregarding numerous requests, the City of Cambridge has left the intersections of Bow and Plympton Streets, and of Plympton and Mill Streets, unguarded, without the stop signs which would change them from possible death traps to normally safe corners...
Curley was 25 when the Irish elected him to Boston's common council. At 27. marshaling more toughs than the opposition and able to steal more ballot boxes, he was boss of Ward 17. At 40, after roasting Brahmin ''Goo-Goos" of the Good Government Association, he was mayor. And at 60. after Curleyites burned enough crosses to provide a background for Cur ley oratory against the K.K.K. and prejudice, big (6 ft.. 200 Ibs.) Jim Curley was elected Governor. In addition, he served four terms in Congress, was jailed twice for fraud, was once ordered...
...take the common councillor long to find Harvard an unparalled source of humor and self-advancement in Ward 17. He had long admired the well-oiled machine of New York's Tammany Hall, which, in a modest way, his own Roxbury Tammany Club recreated. Partly because many of his constituents could not yet read a ballot, Curley made a more educational enterprise of his club. He invited speakers from outside the ward. Whatever the topic, he assured them all of an intelligent and sympathetic audience. Thus their dual function was to provide the ward with entertainment as well as enlightenment...
...Twenty-two is old enough to bear arms, vote, marry, and assume parenthood," says Sewall. "Common sense, and the evidence of the achievement of the Scholars denies the supposition that it is not old enough for this sort of independent work." Physically old1