Word: commonical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Naval Radio School, which had started with a small group of University scientists in the Cruft Laboratory, had expanded by the fall of 1918 to 6300 students occupying Memorial Hall, Pierce Hall, Hemenway Gym and specially built barracks on the Cambridge Common. By spring 1919, however, the school was on its way to Chicago...
...impulse--Lowell's ambition to respond to so many happenings--results in uneven inspiration. Some, the beautiful Father and Sons poem for Alan Tate, the Writers series, Caracas, some of the Dream poems, others--are among Lowell's most brilliant. The three poems to R.F.K. seem low-key and common at first-then resonant and vital. The Mexico series on the whole is mediocre--although it has brilliant lines and cadences. Lowell's use of the sonnet to frame his vision emphasizes the uneven inspiration. A few poems are written long to fulfill the form and must take all their...
...rooms that drew Fielding's closest scrutiny were the inside singles, known in the trade as "the mother-in-law rooms." They are, he explains, "the lowest common denominator. You learn a lot about the hotel from just a glance at them." Tour over, Fielding cordially thanked the assistant manager, ducked back outside to his car. "Let's do the usual, Mac," he told the chauffeur, who promptly drove around the corner and parked. Fielding pulled out a notebook and began scribbling away: "Concierge with hotel 43 years. Many improvements under way. When manager arrives, fireworks are expected." Tucking...
Discount House. Such problems have a common cause: the mark is greatly undervalued in comparison with the inflation-weakened moneys of Germany's trading partners. This disparity has turned Germany into a heavily patronized discount store for the rest of the world. By recent estimates of the German Bundesbank, Germany's goods now cost an average of 7½% less than those of its major trading partners. Since the difference is even greater between German and U.S. products, it is hardly surprising that German exports to the U.S. climbed 38% last year. As the world's most...
...John F. Kennedy and La Guardia, Newark and Washington's National. During the crush from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at J.F.K., for example, the number of flights will be held to 90 per hour, 20 fewer than the highs of last summer, when two-hour delays were common...