Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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House debating, newest and most pretentious branch of Debating Council activity, will be launched tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the Eliot House common room as Eliot argues Winthrop on the Munich Pact. Highlight of this and of all future inter-House debates will be the participation of prominent members of the faculty...
Other faculty orators scheduled to appear are Joseph A. Schumpeter, George Baker Professor of Economics, representing Dunster, and Lowell's William Yandell Elliott, professor of Government, who will oppose each other on the Munich Pact in the Pioneer-Bellboy fray tomorrow night, in Lowell Common Room at 7:30 o'clock...
...will make a State visit to King George. Last week Rumania and Yugoslavia were exerting pressure on their neighbor Hungary to keep her from grabbing such a great slice of Slovakia & Ruthenia as would pinch off the whole eastern end of Czechoslovakia. This would give Hungary and Poland a common frontier, would mean that Rumania and Czechoslovakia would no longer be adjoining States...
...Arkansas Traveler (Paramount) carries a dedication, quoted from LIFE, to "William Allen White ... a living symbol of small-town simplicity and kindliness and common sense." Unsentimental cinemaddicts, however, will perceive that the real purpose of the picture is not so much to pay tribute to that celebrated Kansan as to carry its star, Bob Burns, a step closer to the peculiar niche of public approbation once occupied by the late Will Rogers...
...print the Burns character is that of a cracker-barrel philosopher, whose favorite characters (both fictional) are his Aunt Doody and Grandpa Snazzy. In real life Cracker Barrel Burns has an $85,000 house, amuses himself with amateur astronomy, maintains the common touch by driving about in a Ford. His next picture will be I'm From Missouri...