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When people talk about investing in the stock market, they are almost always talking about common stocks.common stocks = shares of both corporate profits and voting power in shareholder elections
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The individual I is what differs from the common stock, that is, what cannot be guessed at or calculated, what must be unveiled, uncovered, conquered.† (source)common stock = a share of both a corporation's profits and voting power in shareholder elections
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"The shareholders are common stock shareholders," Tyler said mildly.† (source)
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This change was striking, since until now they had jealously withheld their personal grief from the common stock of suffering; now they accepted its inclusion.† (source)
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One share of common stock of the American Electric Power Company, and it was cheap as dirt in the middle of the Depression.† (source)
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To be suddenly hoisted, naked and gory, from the common stocks to the Alpine altitude and splendour of an Earldom, seemed to him the last possibility in the line of the grotesque.† (source)common stocks = shares of both corporate profits and voting power in shareholder elections
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This excellent result is effected by societies for all manner of virtuous purposes, with which a man has merely to connect himself, throwing, as it were, his quota of virtue into the common stock, and the president and directors will take care that the aggregate amount be well applied.† (source)common stock = a share of both a corporation's profits and voting power in shareholder elections
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But that my admirable dexterity of wit, my counterfeiting the action of an old woman, delivered me, the knave constable had set me i' the stocks, i' the common stocks, for a witch.† (source)common stocks = shares of both corporate profits and voting power in shareholder elections
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Almost all the inhabitants of the territory of the Union are the descendants of a common stock; they speak the same language, they worship God in the same manner, they are affected by the same physical causes, and they obey the same laws.† (source)common stock = a share of both a corporation's profits and voting power in shareholder elections
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I found they work'd for a common stock, eat at common tables, and slept in common dormitories, great numbers together.† (source)
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Whereas in the early days of the plague they had been struck by the host of small details that, while meaning absolutely nothing to others, meant so much to them personally, and thus had realized, perhaps for the first time, the uniqueness of each man's life; now, on the other hand, they took an interest only in what interested everyone else, they had only general ideas, and even their tenderest affections now seemed abstract, items of the common stock.† (source)
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From the literal dust of time, I dug up certain facts: In May, 1914, Montague M. Irwin had sold five hundred shares of common stock, at par, to Wilbur Satterfield and Alex Cantor, who were, I was to discover later, officials in the company.† (source)
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The men who inhabit the vast territory of the United States are almost all the issue of a common stock; but the effects of the climate, and more especially of slavery, have gradually introduced very striking differences between the British settler of the Southern States and the British settler of the North.† (source)
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Of them standing among them, one lifts to the light a west-bred face, To him the hereditary countenance bequeath'd both mother's and father's, His first parts substances, earth, water, animals, trees, Built of the common stock, having room for far and near, Used to dispense with other lands, incarnating this land, Attracting it body and soul to himself, hanging on its neck with incomparable love, Plunging his seminal muscle into its merits and demerits, Making its cities, beginnings, events, diversities, wars, vocal in him, Making its rivers, lakes, bays, embouchure in him, Mississippi with yearly freshets and changing chutes, Columbia, Niagara, Hudson, spending themse† (source)
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If, contrary to probability, it should be admitted by all the States, that each had a right to a share of this common stock, there would still be a difficulty to be surmounted, as to a proper rule of apportionment.† (source)
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For there is in this case no other common stock, but what is made of their particular adventures.† (source)
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