Word: uncommonly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elizabethan age, big with luxury, vanity, conquest and high emprise, also produced the English miniature. It was the Century of the Uncommon Man. The art of the miniaturist, wrote Miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard in 1600, is "a thing apart from all other painting or drawing, and tendeth not to common men's use . . . and is for the service of noble persons, very meet in small volumes in private manner for them to have portraits and pictures of themselves, their peers and any other...
...company after company released its second-quarter reports last week, the estimates seemed reasonable. Increases of 100% to 300% above the strike-harassed 1946 period were not uncommon. Of 342 companies reporting at week's end, 237 showed bigger earnings, only 67 showed decreases. Oil-profiting from an unprecedented demand sufficient to outrun supply for two years-set the pace. Typical six months' earnings: Sun Oil Co., $11,360,170-up from $4,360,212; Phillips Petroleum Co., $15,459,699 v. $8,002,179; and Shell Union Oil Corp...
...loudly proclaimed that the bill was bad because it favored the uncommon more than the common income. Actually the bill provided that taxes should be reduced three times as much on small incomes as on big ones. Harry Truman had taken this dubious line in his first veto. This time he came down hard on another reason: while the world was in such a critical state, "it is unwise to make so large a cut in our Government's future income...
...years, Herbert Read has written 20-odd books of poetry, criticism and biography (Wordsworth; In Defense of Shelley) and become Britain's top authority on modern art. He is a not uncommon type of his generation-an intellectual who was born early enough to enjoy the traditional tranquillity of Victorian rural England, but who reached an individualistic maturity during the disordered years between two wars. It is in this respect that his autobiography makes good reading-for Read shuns sensational confessions and concentrates on the varying influences that left their marks on his mind...
Uranium is not an uncommon element, but known big deposits are few. If a prospector should find one of these, his troubles would have only begun. The U.S. (like nearly every nation) regards uranium as strictly Government property. At the end of every Geiger rainbow, an FBI man is waiting...