Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alteration of empty rooms in a wing of the legal building has been voted upon by the faculty in adopting the report of the curriculum committee. There was no immediate prospect of funds sufficient for painting and furnishing the proposed common rooms, said Morgan, although graduates had expressed their enthusiasm for the project...
...eleven o'clock tomorrow morning several hundred Harvard students will forego the rest of their classes for the day and hie themselves to the Boston Common, there to join with several thousand other New England collegians for a meeting in the interests of peace. Their mass demonstration will take the form of a strike, and this strike will be notable for the number and variety of issues they oppose. Not satisfied with merely crusading for an abstract, effervescent peace, the students have decided to direct their disapproval against war and the forces which make for war; compulsory military training...
...Boston, when he raised a flag at 8:45 yesterday morning can only be compared to Al Smith's when he laid the cornerstone for the Empire State Building. And even our zealous officials forget to recall, for Governor Hurley was discovered waiting for a parade on the Cambridge Common, while the affair went on somewhere near Harvard Square...
...silencing conjecture, the big Ball gift generated a swarm of new stories. Hearst's New York American "learned exclusively" that California Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini's Transamerica Corp., through Bancamerica-Blair Corp., had been negotiating for Midamerica's 2,064,000 shares of Alleghany Corp. common stock which it holds in the complex Van Sweringen corporate setup. But old Mr. Giannini denied this...
...eightieth anniversary. Meanwhile, for the first time in its history, Meier & Frank proposed to let its employes and the public in on ownership of the business, filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission a prospectus for sale by the stockholders of 183,928 (one fifth) of their 919,640 common shares...