Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students, because they have only ordinary marks, because an over demand happens to exist in the type of rooms for which they are applying, or any such unjust, though at present necessary, basis for elimination. Dining hall privileges as well as the use of game rooms, music rooms, and common rooms could be made available to the associate body...
...Bainbridge, assistant professor of Physics, Kenneth V. Thimann, assistant professor of Plant Physiology, and John W. Mehl, instructor and tutor in Bio-chemical Sciences, the second of two joint conferences on Physics, Biology, and Biochemistry will be held at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon in the Senior Common Room of Eliot House...
Assuring an audience of 100 persons in the Lowell House Common Room last night that the peaceful nations of the world would be gobbled up if they did not take concerted action against Fascist elements, Miss Celeste Strack took the affirmative of a debate entitled "Collective Security...
...Jersey's Assemblymen were puzzled by a bill introduced last month permitting use of the bow & arrow in hunting brant, gallinules, coots, dowitchers, turn-stones, godwits, tattlers, certain other more common game birds and animals. Blind, rosy-cheeked Assemblyman Thomas M. Muir of Plainfield asked Assemblywoman Constance W. Hand, sponsor of the bill: "What is a godwit?" Mrs. Hand: "I'm sure I don't know what godwits are." Assembly Speaker Herbert J. Pascoe, from the chair: "They come from North Plainfield." Assemblymen looked the godwit up, found it is a long-legged, long-billed wading bird...
...Africa, a restrained, formalized book, which has little in common with her first book, Author Dinesen writes of the African landscape, its animals and people with the eye of a painter and a novelist: "The geographical position, and the height of the land combined to create a landscape that had not its like in all the world. There was no fat on it and no luxuriance anywhere; it was Africa distilled up through six thousand feet, like the strong and refined essence of a continent." The natives ("they were afraid of us more in the manner in which...