Word: uncommonly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This not uncommon appeal across a drugstore counter spawns one of the world's meanest, lowest rackets. As every druggist knows, the customer who makes this plea is interested in abortion and usually wants a box of pills (often hideously expensive). As every gynecologist knows, pills don't work-and are highly dangerous. Last week the U.S. Food & Drug Administration let it be known that it had launched a determined drive against the thriving abortion-drug trade...
Your article ["This Shame," TIME, Nov. 11] on state mental hospitals struck rather close to home, and I will admit that scenes such as the accompanying photo depicted are not uncommon. However, s'milar situations exist in private mental hospitals as well, and will continue to exist wherever mental illness exists...
That same height advantage, however, was not always in evidence, for the Varsity quintet seemed to have uncommon difficulty in recovering rebounds from its own backboard against the tinier Techmen. On defense, John Gantt turned in a good performance underneath the basket...
...most spectacular and distinguished younger poet, but barely half of his prose and verse (The Map of Love, New Poems, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog) has been printed in the U.S. One possible reason: most of Thomas' brilliant, tempestuous work is so shrouded in uncommon meanings and metaphors that the average reader is likely to find his work incomprehensible without a guide...
Uniform A.B. degree have been found to be the rule in one sampling of U.S. colleges, although the B.S. for concentrators in the natural sciences is not uncommon, the typical form being "B.S. in Chemistry, B.S. in Mathematics," and so forth. Wisconsin and Chicago, at least, add a third, Bachelor of Philosophy, for social scientists...