Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those who are about to translate or murder my speech to note the difference between meeting Britain and clashing with Britain. . . . Britain is really living in the past in her judgment of Italy. She has a picturesque conception of Italy-a picturesqueness I detest. . . . In view of our common interests in the Mediterranean I believe it is possible to find a middle ground...
...slovenly business clerk, for Adolf Hitler's personal newspaper, Volkischer Beobachter, gave intimations of a new Nazi plan: to have Government agents comb the personnel of banks, business houses, department stores, newspapers, and to ship all white-collar workers "not fitted for commercial employment" out to work as common laborers in factories and fields...
...must to all men, Death came last week to John William Navin Sullivan. Son of a poor Irish sailor, Sullivan was one of the world's four or five most brilliant interpreters of physics to the world of common men-physics being a prosaic name for that vast branch of science which embraces the giddiest reaches of the universe, the four-dimensional time-space continuum of Relativity, the hidden dance and pulsations of electrons. He was also a novelist, a musician, a philosopher-above all, a dreamer...
...producing properties. Pure Oil Co. last week filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission an amended registration statement for $44,244,000 worth of new preferred, dividend rate still undetermined, to be offered first to holders of the company's 3,981,990 shares of outstanding common at the rate of one to nine...
...credit, yet it still remains after 18 years quite as notable as this year's increase in profits. The company neither advertises nor seeks publicity, so the Joslyn plan never made much stir until last winter when the company prepared to sell $1,350,000 worth of common stock. Financial writers then discovered Marcellus Joslyn's old labor policy, adopted during the post-War period of strikes and labor migrations, and Father Coughlin presented him with an oratorical laurel wreath. Scholarly President Joslyn-who is 64, and often mistaken for a doctor because of his black goatee...