Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...need heed these defilers of the Freshman's pleasure. Whether it represents the climax of the first year, the matriculation into full-fledged Sophomores, or any of many other symbols, no one very much cares. But everyone will at least agree that the Standish back-yard (or smith Common room, as the Fates decide) has never been graced with more delightful visions in organdie or escorts with watch charms in greater abundance...
...observed with interest and satisfaction that the results for the past year not only confirmed my forecast but showed it was more than justified. . . . After providing for the depreciation of the fleet and paying the dividend on the preference _ [preferred] shares, we recommend a dividend of 6% on ordinary [common] shares and balances carried foreward...
International Mercantile Marine, founded in 1893 (as International Navigation Co.) and reorganized by J. P. Morgan in 1902, although it owned the White Star Line, has itself never paid common stock dividends. It paid dividends on preferred stock from 1917 until May 1, 1923; none since. It owes about $40,500,000 back dividends on the preferred. I. M. M.'s present financial condition is strong. Last week on the New York Stock Exchange 15,000 shares of its common and 20,000 of its preferred were traded at around...
...Venezuela. Here the condemned, one-half of whom die in the first year, eke out a prison sentence with hard labor, followed by continued exile; the avowed purpose being: "expiation of crime, regeneration of the guilty, and the protection of Society." That the purpose has been sadly travestied is common gossip abroad, but Blair Niles went to see for herself...
...shock of her childhood. But the lore of her witchcraft, and the superstitions of her New England neighbors, lift her out of the psychiatric laboratory into the worthy realm of fiction. Author Forbes formalizes her fantastics with a prose borrowed in part from the 17th century when witches were common subject of puritanical debate...