Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...members of the Government Department will predict the fortunes of both the Democratic and Republican parties in the light of the November election at 8 p.m. tonight in the Kirkland Junior Common Room...
Contrary to the common belief that open houses means unlimited invitations, dancing, and refreshments, open, house merely means that on each night of the week, one dormitory will be open to girls and their dates until midnight, rather than the usual...
Fora on the significance of the recent elections will be held in the Junior Common Rooms of Adams and Eliot Houses at 8 p.m. tonight...
...nine-year-old gelding, worth an estimated $20,000, had kicked himself going over a jump. For the better part of an hour, worried Norma played nursemaid (ice baths, salve, liniment and heavy wrappings) to Country Boy's bruised left fetlock. Such concern was only common sense to Norma: "After all, the horse is 60% of my success." Her own 40% contribution is "rhythm" and "getting to know" Country Boy, plus 22 years of riding experience in a 27-year lifetime. Norma prefers geldings for a very sound reason: "They haven't anything else on their minds...
...Fanatics. Orwell's purely literary essays are bound by a common thread of dislike for those excesses of thought, even the excesses of such greats as Tolstoy and Swift, which fringe on totalitarian fanaticism. In two brilliant essays he shows how scorn and lack of pity led Swift to portray the ideal Houyhnhnm society as a soulless mechanism, and how Tolstoy's harsh morality blinded him to the truth of Shakespeare's tragedies...