Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those racing fans who prefer to bet against bookmakers (because their odds are stable), non-partisan observers last week suggested permitting both bookmakers and pari-mutuels to operate at New York tracks, a common practice in England and Australia. New York merchants, who disapprove of mutuels (because of their popularity with the masses), had the condolences of the merchants of Miami, Los Angeles, Boston, Baltimore...
...Morgan & Co., and the friendly encouragement of well-wishers like American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and ex-King Alfonso of Spain, International Telephone & Telegraph Co. has installed nearly 1,000,000 telephones in ten countries. Assets on its books tot up to $537,000,000 and once in 1929 its common stock sold for $149.25 a share, 49 times earnings. Last week it sold for $6.75 a share, six times 1938 earnings, and in his annual report I. T. & T.'s amiable President Sosthenes Behn described the hardships of international capitalism...
...Fullers of Pate's Siding and their kin have far more in common with hard-working U. S. farmers of the West than with the bizarre, demoralized crackers of Erskine Caldwell's books. The Pate's Siding folk show about the usual run of rural superstitions: those who prepare for the end of the world during an eclipse are the same who invent the community's ghosts and picturesque fables. Their births, deaths, weddings, coon hunts, corn-huskings, box suppers, hog killings, squabbles, worries, jokes and tragedies are memorable because Author Harris writes about them sensitively...
...annual triangular Harvard Yale Princeton debate, one half of the Yard- ling forensic squad meets a Tiger yearling trio in the Upper Common Room of the Union tonight at 7:45. Three other members of the team travel to New Haven and will argue against an Ell Freshman squad tonight...
...informal talk on "American Medicine: Today and Tomorrow" in the Lowell House Common Room last night, Dr. Hugh Cabot of the Mayo Clinic urged that the cost of medical care be reduced by extending "group medicine...