Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ambassador, she will not be able to defend herself from vendetta politics at home which makes common cause with anti-Americanism in South America. Therefore, I have asked my wife to offer her resignation...
...German Electoral Committee" would be nominated by the West and East German governments in a proportion, based on population, of 25 West Germans to ten East Germans. The committee would arrange increasing commercial exchanges-more trains, buses, mail, books, newspapers-culminating in adoption of a common currency. After a period of "at least three years," during which progress could be measured and trust justified, the committee would prepare legislation for free, all-German elections...
...that the federation would collapse. He is already half right. Fearing to antagonize the Ivory Coast, which hires its workers and is its access to the sea, Upper Volta last winter decided to pull out of Mali. So did Dahomey. Now Houphouet and the leaders of Mali share a common concern over Sekou Toure's ominous flirtation with the Soviet Union and its satellites...
...institution of the Courtney Courtney Peabody prize for extraordinary achievement by an undergraduate was announced last night. The winner will be determined at a closed meeting of the Winthrop Senior Common Room early next week. Peabody's family decided that a fifty dollar prize for books, no single volume of which may cost over ten cents, would the most fitting memorial for Courtney Courtney, who graduated at the very bottom of a class of 863 back in 1935. Courtney met his tragic end last May, when he failed to keep his mouth closed during a tropical thunderstorm...
...mere mechanisms, such as a Harvard-type tutorial system or more theses, would effect little change. Wellesley is a small college and can operate on different systems than can a large university. There are few lecture courses. Most of the work is done in sections, and seminar courses--common for upperclassmen--offer opportunities for individual research projects. The facilities exist for more than a spoonfed, reading-list-and-1500-word-paper education. Only the desire is absent...