Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March 27, 1929, Mr. Graustein announced that I. P. & P. had bought 82 per cent of the common stock of the New England Power Association...
...years, have the works of Pablo Picasso continued to delight the knowledgeable and confound the common man. Flying like a shuttlecock between the esthetic debaters of two continents, the very name of Picasso has been a symbol of irresponsibility to the old, of audacity to the young. To millions of solid citizens it has been one of the two things they know about modern art- the other being that they don't like it. But the show a Rosenberg's had a new significance, because it came at the full tide of a new period both in Picasso...
...view of the "two to two and one half million dollars" necessary for building a new House, the Council recommended as an "intermediary" measure the provision of a dining hall, library, and common room for the 260 men annually denied rooms in the Houses...
Rice and Chinamen. It was environment that settled the Chinamen on rice instead of something else. Environment. And from the wisdom gained by a half year's application, Geography I could scribble, "Because it is half way between the Navy Yard and the Boston Common...
...marriage settlement laid before the Buffalo meeting consisted of a "Proposed Statement" and a "Proposed Concordat." The Proposed Statement included nine "Things Believed in Common"-including the sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper-by the two churches, so broadly drawn that none but theological nigglers could object to them. The Concordat raised a more ticklish question. Its chief provision was for a "commissioning" of ministers of either church, to administer the sacraments to members of either...