Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ideal. Making a point that he hammered again and again during his visit, Nixon said: "Material progress is important, but the very heart of the American ideal is that 'man does not live by bread alone.' Progress without freedom, to use a common expression, is like 'potatoes without fat.' There is nothing we want from any other people except the right to live in peace and friendship with them...
Working students, more and more common at Harvard during the past few years, established a new record this last year. Nearly one-third of the undergraduates in the College and the Summer School, highest in history, accepted employment at some point during the scholastic year...
...Kaufman and Hart comedy will be performed on a stage now being erected in the Lower Common Room of the Harvard Union. The modular stage owned by Dunster House, which was built this year with funds provided by the Ford Foundation, will be the basis of the temporary structure, while elements of the Adams House apron stage. also financed in part by the Ford Foundation, will be used to complete it. The new stage is designed for minimal interference with normal activity in the common room, piano room, and TV room...
...experts are in close agreement on what cancer is. First, it is not one disease any more than "infection" is. Cancers ravage the entire plant and animal kingdoms. In man there are 200 to 300 kinds, though 90% of human cancers belong to 30 common types. So "cancer" is a collective term...
...vast majority of U.S. businessmen, says the report, feel that information gathering should cease "when it conflicts with legality or common morality," confined themselves to such above-board methods as sending a shopper to a competitor or analyzing published sources of information. But 27% reported that espionage had recently been discovered in their industry in forms that would do justice to any government's spy network. Concluded the Harvard men: "Business spying has resulted in the loss of many millions of dollars' worth of valuable corporate information...