Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admirers say that he is honest, fair, shrewd, that he has the common touch, knows the labyrinths of Washington. They feel that he is an able governmental practitioner who knows how to get things done. His administration would be canny, cautious and conservative, and would probably bring about great harmony between the White House and Congress...
Toothpaste & Politics. He began his first experiments in polling, tramping the streets of Iowa City with a briefcase full of newspapers. At that time, a common way of measuring reader interest was to yank out the crossword puzzle for a week and count the complaints. Gallup adopted the startling device of confronting a reader with the whole newspaper and asking him exactly what he liked and didn't like about...
Veritas Films offers students a chance to be common on the Commons and to have their antics eternally recorded on celluloid. President William Alden '50, said this is the final mob scene on their shooting schedule and that they are in need of old-clothed extras to act as kiteflying factory workers...
Campaign rallies centered around the Union. One Freshman nominee raffled off tickets for a Boston Red Sox baseball tilt. A wire recorder filled the Common Room with music and political blurbs for another candidate...
...second place, there is absolutely no discernible justification for having the gates closed, now or ever. This fact climinates all thought of officials instigation of the crime, for the University seldom violates the canons of common sense by keeping an archaic regulation overlong on the statute books...