Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relations between England and France he felt are now better than ever, because there is an understanding that has gone down to the masses. America is being increasingly drawn into this alliance both because of her common background and the fact that her future is insolubly wound up with the existence of the French Army and the English Navy...
Whatever it may be in the theories of the President and his Fellows, Harvard is in fact an oligarchy. By the common practice at the nation's oldest university, matters of policy are settled at the top, and any voice which is suffered from the nether reaches of the faculty or the administration is in practice limited to an advisory function. This is true in the central governing body of the University; it is true within each separate department. It holds in general for most decisions on policy; it holds in particular for decisions on appointment and tenure...
...critics realized on second thought, the Nobel Prize went to Pearl Buck only partly for The Good Earth. The democratic-minded Swedish Academy was also giving an accolade to Pearl Buck's sympathy for the Chinese common people, and to her telling attacks, in her magazine articles, on the dictators. The influence of her writing far transcends its importance as literature...
...such standards, The Patriot ranks with her best work. Aiming at twice the scope of The Good Earth, Pearl Buck this time pays tribute to the common people of Japan as well as China...
...meeting as will Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. He is expected to reiterate the appeal he made a week ago to CIO President John L. Lewis and Federation President William Green--that the warring labor factions sign a peace pact and unify under one banner for the common good of the people and the country...