Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United Automobile Workers proposed to bid for control of the fourth city of the land. Detroit's charter provides for a nonpartisan primary with a run-off election. Since most of the municipal jobs are appointive the campaign hinges on the mayoralty and the nine seats on the common council, which is elected at large. The purpose of last week's primary was to narrow the field of mayoralty candidates from five to two, the councilmen candidates from...
...their fun mainly to poker. Mr. Green stayed in an $18-per-day suite in the Cosmopolitan Hotel, where he was served by a union waiter, had his bed made by a non-union chambermaid. Across the street in the Brown Palace, Michael Carrozzo of the Hod Carriers, Building & Common Laborers' Union had a $15-per-day suite. Two delegates from the International Union of Operating Engineers shared two bedrooms and a parlor at $30. Some of the labormen who brought their wives & children set up housekeeping apartments rented for the duration...
...extra curricular study of American History thus is twice blest. It helps the individual to grow in wisdom after he leaves the Yard and it gives the public an ever growing appreciation of our past that might be the "common denominator among educated men which would enable them to face the future united and unafraid...
...report of 1936-1937, when he said: "It seems clear...that it would be desirable for every college graduate to have a knowledge of the cultural history of the United States in the broadest sense of the term. . . . A true appreciation of this country's past might be the common denominator among educated men which would enable them to face the future united and unafraid...
...example stand out as real, living, and yet understandable individuals, rather than as aggregates of definite amounts of intelligence, aggressiveness, motility, emotionality and other such characteristics. He accomplishes this portrayal by describing the roles of peculiar and individual traits in each personality, as well as those of the common traits found in all individuals. The methods and techniques employed in studying these patterns of interdependent traits have been devised by the exercise of great ingenuity on the part of Dr. Allport and other investigators...