Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Herr Hitler of German-Yugoslav friendship: ". . . Through historic events we have become neighbors with common borders established for all time...
...indictment shows that he is just a common thief," announced Prosecutor Dewey, abridging the principle of English and U. S. law that indictments prove nothing. The twelve counts alleged that Fritz Kuhn: 1) stole $8,907 collected at the Bund's February rally in Manhattan; 2) stole $4,424 collected to defend six Long Island Bundsters who were convicted of violating the State Civil Rights Law last July; 3) stole $565 of Bund money to move the furniture of a blonde divorcee, Mrs. Florence Camp, from Los Angeles to Manhattan;-4) stole $151 to move Mrs. Camp...
Clara Driscoll and E. B. Germany have one thing very much in common: they are co-chairmen of the Texas Garner-for-President Club (five rooms, nine employes in Dallas). Proceeding on Garner's friend Emil Hurja's theory that early leaders stay on top, last week Mr. Germany and Mrs. Driscoll unmistakably pushed chaparral Jack Garner into the 1940 Presidential race† on a national scale. Over their signatures the T. G. F. P. Club appealed to 40,000 ranking Democrats throughout...
...last few years doctors in Denmark have noted that the tall, spare Danes are growing "fat and short of breath." Last fortnight Dr. K. Ulrich of Copenhagen gave reporters a ready explanation for this phenomenon. Like most Europeans, he said, Danes were slow to install central heating systems, common in U. S. homes. Throughout the long, cold winters they shivered, exercised, ate heavily to generate their own body heat. But recently Denmark acquired hot-air furnaces and steam radiators. Result: the Danes, still eating heavily, lounge comfortably in their warm rooms, convert the excess food into fat instead of heat...
Honoring three officers who retire from their positions at Harvard this year, Military Science undergraduates will hold a smoker and beer-party in she Winthrop House Common Room at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon...