Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well aware are the managements of TIME and LIFE of their common readers' Friday indecision, equally undesirable to each magazine. Plans are being studied to avoid a mutual distribution...
...clock one morning last week in a sunlit room of the great white marble U. S. Mint in Philadelphia, the guardians of honest money assembled to do their annual duty. The testers were mostly deserving Democrats appointed by the President: Judge John H. Druffel of the Court of Common Pleas at Cincinnati, Mayor James H. Hurley of Willimantic, Conn., Mrs. Katharine Elkus White, Democratic leader of Red Bank, N. J., Novelist Owen Johnson of Stockbridge, Mass., a realtor from Manhattan, a club woman from Baltimore, an insurance man from Jersey City, etc., etc. Also present as ex-officio testers were...
...Eject that man", directed Senator James Mackay above the roar of hisses as he ended the Child Labor Amendment hearing at the State House yesterday. Kenneth Taylor of the Federation of Labor beat three constables to the door and to the picket line on the Common, ringing down the curtain on one of the best shows of the winter. Since the rule for these occasions is that one Harvard Professor is worth four press-agents, the presence of President-emeritus Lowell and John Raymond Walsh practically guaranteed a page one story. What could not be seen at the start...
Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, will read to Freshmen in the Upper Common Room of the Union at 7:15 o'clock tonight. This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of "Copey's" annual readings...
...headed 1,200 women. Of these the Sultan legally married only four, but might go a-roving among the other 1,196. To pass the time, the women-in-waiting sometimes amused themselves with the eunuchs (who were of three types), sometimes with each other. Palace plots were common, and occasionally the Sultan cleared the atmosphere by wholesale drowning. That at least one of these occurrences was of fairly recent date is indicated by the story of the diver sent down to investigate a wreck off Seraglio Point, who immediately signalled to be drawn up again, explained that...