Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...labor," keynoted John L. Lewis at the opening session in Mexico City this week of the Latin American Labor Congress. "Mexico today is going forward in the same way as the United States because it has a great leader who believes in the rights and welfare of the common people...
Cause of the disease is the reproductive spores of the coccidioides fungus. which are found in grape, hay and cotton dust-primarily in the San Joaquin Valley. When the spores are inhaled they settle in the lungs, cause symptoms similar to those of flu, common cold or bronchopneumonia. In a few days the "cold" clears up, but a week or two later, painful red swellings appear on the shins, thighs, arms, scalp. Known to valley workers as "the bumps," this erythemanodosum lasts anywhere from a few days to several weeks. When it finally fades, leaving only brown spots, the first...
Flick Hoxton's boys have similarly eccentric habits. Sometimes they soak their felt hats, stretch them on baseball bats and traipse around the campus like pixies wearing hats two or three feet high. Each spring they raise squirrels in their dresser drawers. A common event at dinner is the passing of the "boss" (dessert) from unlucky to lucky wagerers. Sometimes boys will bet a whole year's boss on an election or whether a master's wife's baby will be a boy or girl. Once they smeared treacle (molasses) on the bell rope...
...shares Aluminum Co. of America (whose 1,472,625 shares of common are about 30% Mellon family-owned), worth...
...Buckminster Fuller as an architect it has been said that he proceeds incoherently to logical conclusions. As a writer he follows the same procedure, leaping from-subject to subject faster than the eye can follow, but usually reaching conclusions notable for their mixture of blunt common sense and intuitive romanticism...