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Common-place principles of management do not seem to find place in this hallowed Institution which had one of the world's most memorable leaders in the Mother.
Now is the time for a thorough overhaul at Sri Aurobindo Ashram Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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We've recommended Common-place before (12.02.2003, the first time), and it's in the sidebar.
Common-place M-mv 2005
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We've recommended Common-place before 12.02.2003, the first time, and it's in the sidebar.
Archive 2005-08-01 M-mv 2005
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+ Common-Place Common-place is not a traditional scholarly journal.
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In Southey's _Common-place Book_, 3d series, I found the following in p. 712.
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In the _Common-place Book_ of Justinian Paget, a lawyer of James the
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Common-place ideas are couched, as a rule, in common-place language, and require no nice discrimination of sounds, or other refinement of utterance, for their full rendering; but in true poetry and impassioned prose implication is no mean instrument of effectual interpretation.
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education
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Common-place subjects will ever be treated in a common-place manner, and resemble each other.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various
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-- Common-place though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character.
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis
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The latest account of these _footsteps_, previous to their being built over, with which I am acquainted, is the following, extracted from one of Joseph Moser's _Common-place Books_ in my possession: --
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