Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest achievements was to teach Puerto Ricans the true value of the ballot. Against the then-common practice of vote-selling, Muñoz used an argument compounded of pity and scorn: "If you want to sell your vote for $2, all right. I don't blame you. I know $2 is worth something. But if you don't sell your vote, you can use it to get justice for your family. So remember: justice or $2. But you can't have both...
...admired object was the Portland Vase, a ten-inch-high urn of deep blue glass, decorated with white cameo figures of Peleus and Thetis. According to common, if unproved, legend, it was supposed to have come from the sarcophagus of the 3rd Century Roman Emperor Alexander Severus and to have once contained his ashes. Sir William Hamilton, otherwise known to history as the husband of Horatio Nelson's mistress, Emma, had brought it to England in 1770. Josiah Wedgwood had copied it, the Duchess of Portland had bought it (whence its present name), and her son had handed...
Prints and slides will be judged by M. I. Elis, president of the Boston Camera Club, and James M. Carpener, assistant professor of Fine Arts. The judges will hold a public showing of the color slides in the Union Upper Common Room on the final contest day. Black and white prints will be judged in a private contest with the point of choosing a "print of the year...
Though primarily concerned with the "trade" book and newsstand magazine, the course will deal with techniques common to the textbook, scientific book, and special-circulation magazine. The course will not offer specialization, in any one branch of publishing, but try to emphasize the basic techniques and problems...
...Harvard and Princeton baseball teams, which start playing here at 3:45 p.m. have many things in common this year...