Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outstanding primitives is an early American bicycle made by John T. Moody, of Newburyport. Moody, when 16 years old, won the Massachusetts Championship on Boston Common in 1878 with this crude bike...
Sunday night in a long fest of bull with friends and a discussion (invoked by the hideous fact of our common servitude under Mr. Brinton in Intellectual History) of what is progress. Which tied us up in a thousand knots such as what is civilization what is man what is science what is anything. Some of us wanted to let it go at that and make up limericks...
Ornamental pheasants, which bear a resemblance to their gamebird cousins, are native to most of Asia and parts of the East Indies. Chief export centres are Singapore and Calcutta. Prices range from $10 or $15 per pair for common Goldens or Lady Amhersts to $250 for a pair of rare, shimmering blue-green-gold-copper-crimson Impeyans. Except for a few jungle varieties, the birds are hardy, need nothing in the way of quarters but a brush pile and windbreak...
...years ago, upon taking office as England's Minister of Health, Sir Kingsley Wood, a lawyer with a rich practice among health and life insurance companies, appealed to England's doctors for an effective treatment for the common cold...
Still small are even Covered Wagon profits-$4.889 in 1934. about $10,000 in 1935 and $86,000 for the first nine month of last year. Only preferred stock (30,000 shares) will be sold to the public in the proposed financing. All common stock (295,000 shares) is owned by Founder Sherman. But each preferred share will be convertible into two shares of common stock, giving the public its first chance in the U. S. trailer's future...