Word: commonnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...university students have any understanding of their own interest, and more especially if they have any appreciation of their birthright as American citizens and any willingness to support and defend democratic principles for the common good, they will put aside childish things now. They will prove, by restraint and self-control, their worthiness to be leaders. --Transcript
...committee was named to investigate and assess the value of such property as was damaged. Several men were seen carefully inspecting the lamp posts to see if any paint had been scratched off. They finally gave up and searched for damage to the grass on Cambridge Common from foot prints. The only prints that were heavy enough to be identified were those of horses and City police officers...
...Spaniard, though he was born one. He's more the ancient Greek somehow or other brought up in the 19th century England. Though he dislikes "the taste of academic straw" he's a scholar who zealously fools his work. He has the greatness of genius, and yet the common sense of one richly human. Like the ancients, he would make philosophy...
...back and along the sides of Memorial Hall, over one thousand Freshmen with a sprinkling of upperclassmen and non-students attended the annual Yardling Smoker last night. This marked the first time that it has been held in Memorial Hall, the change having been made from the Upper Common Room of the Union to provide more room and less congestion...
Around this simple human situation Author Maxwell has written his second novel, a story of such engaging warmth that it would thaw the heart of any critic, will melt many a common reader to tears...