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Word: commonness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...help to this great cause, a suggestion has been made recently in the press by Mr. G. P. Bainbridge of Vancouver, B. C. that a postage stamp be printed for common use by both the U. S, and Canada during Their Majesties' visit. Those used in Canada could be surcharged "Canada" and "United States" could be printed on those used there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 6, 1939 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...four in ten CCCers take vocational instruction in everything from Diesel engine operation to drawing; three in ten study mathematics and other academic subjects. They also have organized sports, camp papers and CCC's weekly Happy Days, published in Washington, as well as other recreations common to young men who distinctly are neither uniformed angels nor devils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSERVATION: Poor Young Men | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...States can bring no good," the manifesto declared. "We appeal above all to the leaders and people in the Great German Reich at this moment of power and influence in their history. We appeal to them to use those great gifts by which they have for centuries enriched our common heritage ... to join with us in a supreme effort to lay the spectre of war." A good idea of the impression this kind of amiable but useless talk makes on the dictators was presented in a cartoon printed in the Glasgow Daily Record & Mail. John Bull, in a phrenologist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cream-Puff Plea | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...direct manner possible that Germany wanted back the colonies she lost in the World War, colonies now largely held by Britain and France. Second, the Führer implied that Germany would stand by Italy in a Mediterranean crisis, declared that the two nations were determined to "defend our common interests together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: One Thing Or Another | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...fourth floor is devoted principally to a special large and a small seminar room, with a luxurious lounge between them. This lounge is to be specifically stocked with reading material and will be the scene of any larger seminars and meetings besides being a common room. The remainder of the space is taken up with offices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Floor Plan of Littauer Public Administration Center Reveals Large Auditorium, Reading Rooms, And Offices | 2/1/1939 | See Source »

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