Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World War" yet, and with the grace of God and the common sense (I hope) of the now neutral large nations, it will never be a World...
From one point of view, Joe Kennedy is a common denominator of the U. S. businessman - "safe," "middle-of-the-road," a horse-trader at heart, with one sharp eye on the market and one fond eye on his children. But he is a super common denominator, uncommonly commonsensible, stiletto-shrewd, practical as only a former president of a small bank can be. As Ambassador Kennedy his attitude is the same as that of Businessman Kennedy: Where...
...Lima last year to draw up an antitotalitarian pact, most of them were determined not to let El Hombre's delegate, Cordell Hull, run the show. Argentina in particular hemmed, took exception, offered substitute phrases. The final draft, a reluctant Argentine compromise, postulated the 21 countries' common interest, provided that in time of crisis the signatories would consult each other. When war broke out fortnight ago, Argentina did a complete about-face and put herself in the forefront of the rush to implement the Lima Declaration...
...Most common methods of managing children were reasoning (65%) and spanking (50%). In four families out of five, husband and wife both disciplined children...
...Horace Kallen of New York's New School for Social Research accused some scientists of using "professional expressions" to mystify rather than to clarify, and opposed the unified language movement by declaring: "Common sense advises that a common language guarantees neither common peace nor common understanding." Difficulty in the way of a common language is that chemistry, physics, biology, astronomy and dozens of other sciences and subdivisions each need a battery of precise terms for precise communication, so that if a common language is to take the place of special technical vocabularies, it would have...