Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...film of the Monza "500" race of 1958 will be shown at the HMSC registration meeting Thursday night at 8 p.m. in the Lowell House Junior Common Room. Other motor sports films will be featured at club business meetings...
...week the Soviet press had fleshed out the image they sought: of an America that gave its heart to the world's No. 1 peddler. "Nikita S. Khrushchev," said Moscow's Literary Gazette, "is the constant, fearless, fervent champion of peace. Now all the common people of the world know it. This includes the citizens...
Millions of mankind are starved for protein in the midst of plenty; protein exists in grass, leaves, and even weeds, but in a form indigestible to human stomachs. Most widely used device for converting protein into edible form is the common cow. But in many tropical areas, where protein starvation is most acute, cows are scarce and do not thrive. Last week, in London's industrial East End, British Inventor Israel Harris Chayen of British Glues & Chemicals, Ltd. proudly displayed a climateproof mechanical cow. Chewing its cud with the rumble of a bomber squadron, the 50-ft. machine briskly...
...commander's wife, and there begins a tortured, driving love affair that is not only credible but deeply revealing. Through it the reader and Sulgrave begin to see what made the commander and Lieut. Dolfus the inscrutable men they seemed on the island. Theirs had been a common past, itself a prelude to ultimate unhappiness...
Concentrating on Rome's first 40 years, about which virtually nothing is known beyond the legends handed down by Livy and Plutarch, Duggan sketches a fascinating if somewhat too breezily modern story. The Rome of 8th century B.C., as described by Duggan, sounds very much like a common European caricature of the 20th century U.S. Rome is slow to war. and quick to extend aid to an enemy once he has been beaten. Its conglomerate citizens-Latin farmers, Sabine hillmen, Etruscan renegades, Greek exiles-are swiftly shaped into a conforming whole; they dress and act alike and are fond...