Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Common Frontier...
...whatever exists, disposed to think lightly of the risks and inconveniences which attend improvements, and disposed to give every change credit for being an improvement. In the sentiments of both classes there is something to approve. But of both the best specimens will be found not far from the common frontier. The extreme section of one class consists of bigoted dotards: the extreme section of the other consists of shallow and reckless empirics...
Candidates, rounded up by talent scouts, are elected to the All-America on the basis of: 1) the cheering section's reaction; 2) judgment in selecting the best psychological moment for a cheer; 3) acrobatic ability-not only proficiency in the common cartwheels, handstands and general high jinks, but also the Ritter Span, Nelson Arch, Duos...
...Agitation for such a unit has been going on for the past ten years with repeated insistence," Dean Sperry asserted. "I, myself, have stressed the need for some common center for students in the graduate departments. The visiting Committee of Overseers as well has frequently suggested the need for such a unit, naming the north side of Kirkland Street as a possible site...
...power and economic nationalism, such a world is impossible. He must pin his hopes on a world federation; and though men have tried this before and failed, he must realize that to say it is impossible is to say that man as a whole has not a single common interest save war, that he is nothing more than an animal, and a vicious one at that...