Word: commoners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should like to see the palace turned into a home for people fallen on evil days at the end of their lives. If they had ten bob [$2] a week-or even less-they could come here and live in a nice house with a common room and a pleasant garden to walk in. ... One cannot let a bishop's palace any more than one can let a vicarage; that is one of the penalties we pay for Establishment. ... If I were allowed to move into a smaller house I should be better off... despite the fact that...
...harrowing adventures began even before he had got his book to press. Most tests are marketed by commercial publishers, yield handsome profits to publishers and authors. When they had seen pre-publication copies of his book, some publishers began to appeal to Mr. Buros "in the name of common decency" to stop the presses. A distraught publisher: "Now, Oscar! Is this sporting? . . . During my four years of service in the United States Marine Corps and later during my service . . . with the A. E. F., it never occurred to me that I would ever be called upon to die for dear...
Medical editors frown upon literary graces as Puritans frowned upon dancing. Almost all medical reports are warty with Greek and Latin jargon: "Etiologic factors" for "causes," "acute coryza" for "the common cold," "osseous structures" for "bones." Yet the modern physician's bible, Sir William Osier's Principles and Practice of Medicine, is a model of warm and lucid prose-human language conveying the fears and torments of sick human beings...
...Wall Street banking house of Dillon, Read & Co., Fisk directors listened to a proposition from big, potent U. S. Rubber Co., nodded their heads in approval. U. S. Rubber offered to buy Fisk outright for $6,827,330 cash and 109,981 shares of U. S. Rubber Common, holders of Fisk's 34,738 preferred shares to get $110 a share cash (call price), holders of its 439,923 common shares $6.75 a share cash plus 1 share of U. S. Rubber common (last week priced about...
Terms (subject to the approval Dec. 28 by Square D stockholders): for Kollsman Instrument Co., Paul Kollsman will receive $2,000,000 of newly issued 5% cumulative convertible preferred Square D stock, plus 35,000 shares of Square D common, which at last week's market price of 34 were worth $1,190,000, plus either 35,000 more shares of the same common stock or $1,000,000 more of the same preferred. Also Paul Kollsman will receive $20,000 a year as technical adviser, and Kollsman products will still be called Kollsman. Apparently the Kollsman number...