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Word: commonness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public relations agencies all show that institutions are increasingly conscious of the individuals related to them. Every-day problems of every-day individuals are the essence of broader institutional problems, and in order to get to the bottom of a social situation, it must be reduced to its lowest common denominator,--the individual. On this point the Grant Study is truly in the spirit of the times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACK TO NORMALCY | 4/28/1939 | See Source »

...Christmas Eve at the President's house, or spending ten Wednesday evenings with a few Yardlings at his Concord Street apartment, because of his doctor's orders that he should not have too many definite engagements. He will, however, give a Bible reading on May 4 in the upper common room of the Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Copeland, Loved Professor, Is 79; Was Recently Ill | 4/27/1939 | See Source »

When Bunny debates Funster in the Leverett Senior Common Room at 7:45 o'clock tonight, the question before the house will be: "Resolved, That interring schools be abolished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIMINATION OF TUTORING SCHOOLS DEBATED TONIGHT | 4/27/1939 | See Source »

Admission to a restricted Vic-Dance in the Lowell House Common Room this Saturday night will be at the rate of one-half cent per pound of weight of female companion, Irving Clark, Jr. '41, chairman, announced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 4/26/1939 | See Source »

...treatment employed by Walter Millis in "The Martial Spirit" was the first definite attempt to relegate the Spanish-American War to the status of a slap-stick melodrama, and this attempt has proved quite successful. Likewise, Mr. Gregory Mason's account of the War has many more characteristics in common with the Gilbert and Sullivan type of opera than with an armed conflict. He has seconded Millis' motion on the subject by treating the 1898 embroilment as a schoolboy's scuffle. But, like many second-the-motions, "Remember the Maine" is at best only a weak reiteration of something that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 4/26/1939 | See Source »

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