Word: commonnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Londoners amble around the floor, smoke, swap opinions and amateur musical criticism, behave in general more like swing fans at a jam jag than ordinary concertgoers. On some nights the floor is so packed, the air so heavy with smoke and heat that faintings and hurried exits are common. Since the series began in 1895, weed-whiskered old Sir Henry Joseph Wood has conducted every concert. When he and Concert Agent Robert Newman at first insisted on including new and unfamiliar compositions in their programs, critics praised them but insisted that that kind of thing would not go down with...
...Howard Wilcox Haggard, director of Yale's Laboratory of Applied Physiology, deplores drunken driving, believes that a combination of "science, law and common sense . . . [will] diminish alcoholic motor fatalities." In The New England Journal of Medicine Dr. Haggard and assistants Leon A. Greenberg and Louis H. Cohen held up their end of the combination and offered legal advice to police, simple physiological advice to drivers...
...Michigan Southern R.R. Since 1914 New York Central has leased the property, which now forms part of the Central's main-line track between Toledo and Jackson (Mich.). And while the Central has ceased to pay dividends, Erie & Kalamazoo has paid a dividend on its common stock as regularly as most railroads now apply for RFC loans...
Further information regarding the competitive examinations, and copies of the Reading List, may be obtained from the various Counsellors at the Union and in the Houses, or at Strauss Hall Common Room from 4:15 to 5:30 o'clock on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays...
...other hand, his work with the Nieman Fellows is well defined. The common room in Straus Hall has been obtained as a meeting place for the Fellows, and MacLeish drops in from 12 to 1 o'clock every noon to talk things over with them...