Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...files, the language clubs (Circolo Italiano, Cercle Francais, Veriem Turmwaechter,) the religious organizations, and the "social", groups (with which you will not be concerned until next year), all these and more are part of the vast world of things at Harvard and all offer the benefit of friendship from common interests...
...building improvements, students asked for air-conditioning in New Lecture Hall and Widener Library, "at least one long mirror in Matthews", a telephone system, ironing facilities, screens, common rooms, and outdoor seats in the Yards...
...This summer I spent in the Common on a variety of benches. Not long ago I had four walls and a bed and some books, but I was finally driven out along with the rest...
...devised for a major U.S. railroad. Under this plan, portentous for an industry snowed under by its bonded debt, Chicago Great Western Railroad's capitalization will be cut from $139,247,313 to $62, 291, 827, its annual fixed interest charges from $1,705,532 to $767,071. Common stockholders will not get a cent; preferred stockholders will swap their shares (par value: $46,073,500) for new common stock (par value: $11,518,375); first-mortgage bondholders will get new stocks and bonds and 67.92% of the voting power...
Organized in 1892. Great Western was sold under foreclosure in 1909. asked for reorganization under the Federal Bankruptcy Act in February 1935. It has never paid a common stock dividend, has never paid its $4 preferred in full. Last year the road piled up a $902,363 deficit. Had it been operating under the ICC-approved reorganization, it would have earned only 1.4% on its capitalization. This fact presumably prompted Commissioner Mahaffie to dissent again, ask for a more thorough revamping. Said he: "The majority approve a plan that cuts obligatory interest severely and to a basis that...