Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Louis Cons addressed the members of the Modern Language Conference last night in the Junior Common Room of Leverett House on "Enrangeant ma Petite Bibliotheque...
...decrees that all painters must draw in perspective. Grammar and perspective are tools, not ends: they must be used, not worshipped. No writer wants his story to be merely schoolteacherish grammar. No painter wants his picture to be merely good architectural perspective. Both writer and painter do have a common purpose: the writer, to amuse, to shock, to entertain the reader; the painter, to amuse, to shock, to entertain the galleryite: both in-tend to jar your emotions. A fiction writer, to stir your guts, will split any infinitive that gets in the way. A painter, for the same reason...
...Knox had different ideas. Says she: "I just used common sense-a man would call it horse sense-in running my business. But from the first I was determined to run it in what I called a woman's way, because . . . after all, it was women who purchased gelatine." Mrs. Knox spent $500,000 on research, built an experimental kitchen and flooded the nation with gelatine recipes. She ordered the factory kept clean as a kitchen, beautified the grounds, abolished the rear door for employes because "we are all ladies and gentlemen here together." As one result Knox gelatine...
...report showed that Frank Kolbe had liquidated his holdings in the syndicate on Sept. 13 by selling several batches of securities, including 253,813 shares of Alleghany common which cost him $507,626 last April. To finance this hefty purchase he had borrowed $300,000 when Alleghany was selling at $4.50 a share and there were high hopes that the system's ponderous corporate superstructure could be simplified. Since May, however, Alleghany common has fallen as low as $1 and simplification plans have bogged down in a morass of counterproposals, Senatorial investigations and court injunctions. Under such circumstances...
...Nobel Prize for literature, which usually amounts to around $40,000, announced fortnight ago. In France seven of the projected ten novels of the cycle have been published, carrying the story to the outbreak of the War. Although they centre around the wealthy Thibault family, they have little in common with the long, naturalistic family chronicles, of which Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks is the prime example, that have become familiar to U. S. readers. Nor do they resemble Jules Remains' many-volume Men of Good Will. Main difference is that Martin du Gard avoids detailed accounts...