Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grimacing, he turned around and saw that the girl was still hovering near. Why should she take such an interest in him, when they clearly had so little in common? He, to be sure, was interested in her, but only in the same way his father, since youth an avid ornithologist, would be interested in the machinations of the oven bird...
...Common Man more things are tedious than tragic. But the saga of Portia Parsley is a legitimate tragedy--one of the great wastes we think about over stale beer and dirty postcards...
These new hours will also hold for the Union common rooms, where television, magazines, and materials for the playing of bridge abound. "We should like to encourage good bridge playing up there," Miss Williston said, adding that goods cards, bridge pads, and other essentials for the game are readily accessible...
Another regular feature of summer activities--though not in the Union--is the Sunday afternoon music hour in the Grays Common Room from...
...merchandisers, the key to bigger sales is a new pseudo science that analyzes the U.S. housewife's whims with equal parts of salesmanship, psychology, hypnotism and common sense. Its name: impulse buying. The idea is not new, but with the rise of self-service supermarkets, super drug and variety stores, there is a greater incentive than ever before to encourage shoppers to throw away their shopping lists and buy more than they ever intended...