Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Could someone install a device on the common variety of telephone which will inform the telephone user, even though he is on the phone, when someone is trying to contact him ? Perhaps a light could flash, a buzzer buzz, or even a small shock be provided for those who still refuse to give up the line when someone is desperately trying the number...
...county-sized Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (pop. 315,000; area, 1,000 sq. mi.) is the smallest member of NATO, of the European Common Market and of the United Nations. But in some matters, little Luxembourg looms big. It is the tenth largest steel-producing country in the world; its citizens are the most prosperous in Europe, and so fond of its own frothy beer and heavy dumplings that the Germans market corsets in Luxembourg that are outsized even by German standards. And, according to a U.N. report, Luxembourg's drivers have the highest automobile accident rate...
With a mind to the comfort of his country's barristers, Premier Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana called for an end to a solemn heritage of British common law: the traditional curled lawyer's wig. Scoffed Nkrumah: "ridiculous headgear," considering Ghana's sweltering climate...
Jervis Jefferis Babb, former president and director of Lever Brothers Company, will be the final speaker on the Office of Student Placement's series of evening talks on career possibilities tonight at 8 p.m. in the Leverett Common Room...
Bradley, a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will live in the Master's guest suite during his stay at Kirkland. He will address House members in the Junior Common Room on Wednesday evening, April 15, though the subject of his talk has not yet been decided upon...