Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going over the "Confidential Guide" polls, there seems to be a common criticism of many men that personal Preju one Man's dice plays an important part in the grade. "Once a C man, always...
...There are three main divisions of the law: common or garden law, which seems to be made rather by the sun and shade than by the reasoning of man; equity, which the learned John Selden said depended upon the length of the Lord Chancellor's foot; and international law, which is a device made of sand, painted to look like iron...
Said Chairman William A. Hannig of the Examiners' legal committee: "Mispronunciation of common words is bad. Mispronunciation of uncommon words is not so bad. Mispronunciation of words commonly mispronounced by cultured people is also...
Next day Thomas J. Lipton, Inc. filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission a registration statement for 52,000 shares of new $25 par 6% cumulative preferred stock and 200,000 shares of $1 par Class A common stock, which represented the second and final recapitalization made by Lipton, Ltd. since February. With SEC's permission. Hallgarten & Co., Manhattan underwriters, will exercise options on 26,000 shares of preferred and 100,000 shares of Class A common and resell it to the U. S. public. The rest, together with 200,000 shares of Class B common equal in voting rights...
Nevertheless Standish did not get panicky. He acted on the whole with remarkable common sense. Knowing that it was simply a matter of time before the Arabella put back to pick him up, he passed the time by himself as well as he could. First he sacrificed his expensive suit and his shoes, but tried to save his wallet. When common sense overcame his modesty he let his striped underclothes go. Meanwhile, on the Arabella, everything was going just as quietly...