Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...common butterwort is one of several plants which exude a sticky substance so that the leaves act like flypaper. "Pitcher plants" grow leaves that collect and hold water in which insects, birds and mice, attracted by toothsome exudates, fragrant smells or bright colors, are drowned. The bladderwort is an underwater plant whose bladders are equipped with elastic, one-way valves. Once a small crustacean or fish has ventured in, he cannot...
...marriage of Messrs. Dahlberg, Mack and Groves was made in Wall Street, not in Heaven, but it works surpassingly well. Last week's announcement of the approaching sale, largely in Europe, of 100,000 common shares of Celotex Corp. called attention to their successful venture in corporate resuscitation...
...idea for Phoenix. Instead of buying up good investments at bargain prices in the manner of Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp., they would buy up ailing or bankrupt industries cheap, cure them and sell them high. Celotex looked good to them and in 1934 they acquired common stock control...
This attitude is unfortunate, and if half of the fierce Langdell Hall scholars really want a common dining hall, some ambition and initiative on their part must be shown. They--and their undergraduate colleagues--have a right to expect from the powers that be, at least an appropriate building and adequate financial aid; but on the other hand they must not forget that such aid was only extended earlier when an energetic group of students had exhausted every other possibility. It is sometimes said in the Sunday Schools that "God helps those who help themselves"; and University justice...
...especially social science theories do not need this precaution. As most of the scientific theories in the field of the social sciences are critical in regard to the totalitarian theory and practice a dissipation of such sound theories among the Totalitarianists can only be beneficial. They may learn some common sense in this way. For this reason I would rather welcome and invite all the Totalitarianists to listen to to read, and to study the sound social science theories as much as they can. P. A. Sorokin...