Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BOXING'S Archie Moore, being occupied with somewhat more mundane things, probably never had the pleasure of meeting Cecil, the duckbilled platypus. But this week they share in common the pages of TIME; Cecil because, frail and elderly (12), he died; Archie, considerably older, because he fought well and won. In a week filled with news of high moment and striking impact, both Archie and Cecil fought their way into TIME's crowded pages because their stories bore the trademark of the writer who searched his mind and found the telling phrase. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Liebestod, and SPORT...
...drive for a Latin American common market, spurred by the recent Buenos Aires economic conference (TIME, Sept. 16), last week got its first results. In Santiago, Brazilian Foreign Minister José Carlos de Macedo Scares capped a cordial, busy five-day visit by approving a joint Brazil-Chile commission to establish South America's first common market between the two countries. A practical basis for the reciprocal market already exists: Brazil buys Chile's nitrates and Chile needs Brazil's coffee and cocoa. The committee starts work in 60 days on a draft treaty. Said Chile...
...also separates the study and sleeping rooms from the social room of the student group, so any student can study or sleep undisturbed, despite noise in the common living room...
...plan (see diagram below) treats three floors as a unit. Student suites--typically four individual study-bedrooms and a common living room and bath--are so arranged that all living rooms are on the middle floor, with a solid floor of bedrooms above and below. From each living room, inside stairs lead up or down to the bedrooms of that suite. Only the middle floor--where the living rooms are--has a central corridor with access to elevators and main stairways...
...northern end, the residence hall will connect with the two-story commons wing, along Mt. Auburn St. Here will be the junior and senior common rooms, the grill room, and a winding stairs leading the cafeteria line up to the dining hall...