Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, for a change, Scotland provided British music halls with a joke on itself. In the House of Commons, Scottish M. P.'s were discussing a Spirits Bill for Scotland. Before them came an expert on Scottish peculiarities who revealed that, by mixing milk with cheap Eau de Cologne, a potent potion can be made for next to nothing. Added the expert: "This drink is a common one in Scotland. . . . Four gallons would do the trick on a whole football crowd." The Scottish M. P.'s, blushing for the fair name of Scotch whiskey, indignantly recommended that...
Silvery tongues proved more valuable than forceful arguments in the Lowell House Common Room last night as the Harvard Debating team defeated Yale with a decision that, though unanimous, was questioned by many members of the audience...
Traditional climax of the Harvard debating season will be the annual Triangular Debate to be held this year with Yale in Lowell House Common Room at 8 o'clock tonight. The winner of the one hundred dollar Coolidge Prize will also be announced...
...directed against the University, but is rather a militant and orderly expression of the determination of students to oppose all plans which would lead us into another world slaughter." The Cambridge meeting is being followed by a second anti-war gathering of all greater Boston colleges on the Common at 12 o'clock...
...true that several hundred Harvard students will, at eleven o'clock tomorrow, "hie themselves to the Boston Common," unless they are as badly misled by the "Crimson" as by the Childes lecture announcement. The meeting on the Common is at twelve o'clock, and will be preceded by an indoor meeting in the New Lecture Hall to be addressed by Professor Schumann and Dean Hanford; this is the eleven o'clock meeting, under purely Harvard auspices. Again, Professor Robert Morss Lovett is not even primarily a "pro-labor sympathizer," as you describe him, in your attempt to make the greater...