Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last night in the Lowell House Common Room, Alfred S. Romer, professor of Zoology, gave a talk sponsored by the Lowell House Scientific Society on "Recent Paleontological Evidence on the Evolution of Mammals." Professor Romer showed lautern-slides of Pelycosaure, primitive mammal-like reptiles, which he has recently collected in Texas...
...early last month after Franklin Roosevelt's pronouncement on their high levels (TIME, April 19), stock speculators rushed to sell on news of Britain's higher industrial profits tax. In New York the market slide which began in March became a small avalanche, carrying U. S. Steel common down 10 points to 98, Chrysler down 6, Allied Chemical down 13, and the Dow-Jones industrial stock average down 6½ points, including the biggest single day's drop since July 26, 1934. Market observers saw in this no mere repetition of the milder reaction in April...
...Because Chairman Myron Charles Taylor of U. S. Steel expressed "a tremendous ambition" to see all common stockholders rewarded for their patience when he addressed the company's annual meeting last month, Wall Street financial circles last week half-expected Big Steel directors to dip into surplus enough to pay off preferred dividend arrearage, thus pave the way tor a resumption on common. Since the corporation earned $28,561,000 for the first quarter of 1937, it ,would have taken $11,000,000 more to clear up the $9.25 per share arrearage plus $1.75 per share current requirements...
...those who are lucky enough to live in the river palaces already. This would mean that about thirty additional non-residents would use the facilities of each House. Such an increase, though perhaps tending to nullify the effort to make the Houses "individual", would not overburden the commissariat, the common rooms, or the libraries...
Improved backfield play and teamwork have considerably brightened the prospects for the ruggers against Yale next Saturday. Although the teams have had no opponents in common, the Crimson is believed to have the stronger club...