Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purpose of a House dinner is not to stimulate artificially that mystical thing, "House spirit," but rather to provide a weekly occasion when tutors, their associates, and several favored students can join for a few hours of dinner and common room talk. To the six or seven undergraduates invited it gives the opportunity of becoming better acquainted with their superiors, of participating in stimulating discussion of an academic sort. Conceived as such, the dinner is another fine tool for the machine of liberal education. Therefore the present obstacle to its application and extension should be removed by eliminating the restriction...
...Hopkins and MacLaurin are among the 32 authorities invited to meet with 30 undergraduate delegates in the second current social science congress the Guardian has called. Although the conference will not begin officially until tomorrow morning, a preliminary meeting of undergraduate delegates will be held in Winthrop House Senior Common Room tonight...
...cruel plight of the Jews and Catholics in Germany is an appeal to our common humanity. If the world knew of an arctic expedition whose members were slowly dying of cold and starvation, or of a ship on fire at sea, all the nations of the earth would fly to their rescue...
Although some varieties of rock were observed to become plastic and flow under relatively low pressure, quartz remained brittle under the very highest confining and differential pressures. Studies of quartz, one of the most common minerals, are vital to investigation of conditions underground. Prior to these tests it was thought that quartz might become plastic udder the high pressures...
...somewhat different setup was reported by Treasurer Marion B. Folsom of Eastman Kodak Co., which has paid a "wage dividend" every year since 1912, excepting 1934, the amounts varying with common stock dividends...