Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Puritans will hear Lawrence Win-ship, editor of the Boston Globe, speak on "Qualities an Editor Looks for in a New Reporter" in the Senior Common Room Monday night at 7:30 o'clock...
...Certainly there seems to be little common understanding of the function and management of money in our personal and social living, of taxation, of profit as a factor in business and as a motive of industrial enterprise, and of the relations between government and individual initiative in promoting production and employment," he said...
...detail, of this horrendous story was confirmed by a report of Senator Robert M. La Follette's Civil Liberties Committee. From nine volumes of testimony on labor espionage elicited in the Committee's hearings last year, Senator La Follette concluded that it was a "common, almost universal practice in American industry. . . . Large corporations rely on spies. No firm is too small to employ them. The habit has even infected the labor relations of non-commercial philanthropic organizations [like hospitals...
...tapper, announced that he would authorize no more tapping at present. But, because the decision apparently affected only the use of wire tapping for evidence and the Federal Communications Act is limited to interstate messages, Federal agencies may still have use for their equipment, which is stored in a common fund in Washington and shipped to field operatives in plain wooden boxes. To determine whether the results of intrastate tapping are admissible as evidence, the Department of Justice announced that material it has gathered regarding a Washington gambling syndicate headed by one Abe Plisco, alias Jewboy Dietz, might soon...
...devised a scientific test to determine the total number of English words a person would recognize. It is a multiple-choice examination using sample lists of "basic" and "derived" words from Funk & Wagnails' unabridged dictionary, which lists 450,000 words in all. Dr. Seashore's test includes common words as well as puzzlers like antisialogogue (an agent preventing the flow of saliva). Last week he reported the surprising discovery that the average college student has a recognition vocabulary of 176,000 words-62,000 "basic" and 114,000 "derived...