Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United King dom authorities made frantic efforts to keep evacuated children from returning to town for Christmas, and literary bigwigs wrote persuasively in the press. "This Christmas, coming as it does in the rummiest war the world has ever known, will be a test of our common sense," wrote Novelist J. B. Priestly. "We are fighting bewildered, angry, hysterical men, who at any moment may bark out orders to rain death and destruction on this country. . . . Therefore, let the children stay [in the country]. . . . It is better to spend one Christmas Eve longing for them than to spend a thousand...
...supply her expeditionary force in France with pounds; 3) neither country will raise foreign loans without consultation; 4) both will collaborate on internal price policies. The accords were entirely unprecedented. In World War I, which was virtually decided by the economic factor, the two countries had nothing but a common grain agreement and, in the last months, transport and food councils. Said suave French Finance Minister Paul Reynaud: "No better proof than this economic and financial accord could be found of the common will to carry this fight to a finish. It has been inspired by the same spirit that...
...July 1938, Standard Trustee Daniel 0. Hastings (onetime Senator from Delaware) sued Byllesby and associates to recover $42,685,409 for the company. To all this, Byllesby filed a defense which relied chiefly on the statute of limitations. A month later, Standard escaped from reorganization, was returned to the common stockholders with Victor Emmanuel now in the driver's seat...
...cause & cure of cancer, rheumatism, influenza, the common cold, a score of other diseases, doctors know practically nothing. But there are boundaries to medical ignorance: and from time to time doctors map the little they do know. Last week appeared a convenient manual of poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) which clearly stated the main problems facing research workers...
After two plenary sessions in the Winthrop Senior Common Room Friday morning and afternoon, three study groups, conducted by Edward Bernays. I. L. Child, and Rupert Emerson, associate professor of Government; discussed propaganda and education, propaganda and the individual, and propaganda...