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Word: commonnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roaring Twenties" is a saga of liquor and love that rolls through that fabulous decade and down into the gloom and common sense of the thirties. The show belongs to Jimmy Cagney, who is really in his medium as the doughboy-boot-legger-bum. Out of what might be considered "just another toughie role" by many other actors Cagney has made a perfectly understandable human being swept up in a crazy era and thrown down again with a thud when that era comes to a close. Gladys George, as a considerably washed-behind-the-ears Texas Guinan, follows in Cagney...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/8/1939 | See Source »

Methods in a "scientific and humanitarian program" for defense of civilian populations against submarine and air bombers were the topic of a talk by President Karl T. Compton of M. I. T. in the Adams House Upper Common Room last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Compton Talks on Civilian Protection | 11/7/1939 | See Source »

Said Eugene Gifford Grace, president of Bethlehem Steel, as he announced to his stockholders a $1 common dividend (their first since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Steelmaster's Opinion | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...poor hearing in growing children has long been suspected. Last week, in the Lancet, Dr. Phyllis Toohey Kerridge of London University bolstered up this theory by publishing results of her hearing tests on 1,000 English school children. Middle ear deafness, found Dr. Kerridge, "is about four times as common, on the average, under poor social conditions as it is under good social conditions; in the poorest places ... it may be nearly ten times as common as in a good environment, nearly a quarter of the child population being affected. Climate, housing, and the mixing of children seem to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How's That? | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

When he gets some more chemicals, Dawson has an idea that he will put on an exhibition in the Kirkland House Common Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRE EATER TELLS SEVERAL SECRETS ABOUT HIS TRADE | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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