Word: uncommonly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play so English. The two shepherd boys who are so deeply in love are really giddy, and thereby funny in the play; in the movie, they merely filled in the loose strings at the end of the main plots. The movie missed, too, on the character of Jaques. The uncommon melancholy which Thesiger puts into his part set up perfectly the profound lines that come later; in the movie, Jaques was just another member of the banished duke's sylvan court...
Enright takes credit for designing the first nose-guard. Six broken noses in a game was not an uncommon thing in the early days and since no headgears were worn, the first nose-guard was a head band and mouth bit affair...
...court agreed. In a chatty decision written by 77-year-old Judge Learned Hand, the court gently deplored Schmidt's "moment of what may have been unnecessary frankness." But "recent investigations . . . have disclosed-what few people would have doubted in any event-that his practice is far from uncommon." It was necessary to consider "what people generally feel...
...Waters of Siloe ("waters of Siloe* that flow in silence" - Isaiah 8 : 6) is Thomas Merton's history of the Trappists since the founding of their order in the 12th Century. For an authorized account, the book has moments of uncommon candor. According to Merton, the history of many 17th Century Trappist monasteries "was nothing but a series of petty and sordid intrigues." Forgotten was the strict, humble, ascetic life once outlined by St. Benedict. "The monks . . . had all the comforts of the upper class, with servants and feather beds in their own private apartments." By the 18th Century...
...severe form, polio or "infantile paralysis" is an uncommon disease. Last week, scare headlines reported that 1949 had already produced about 11,000 cases in the U.S.-a record total for so early in the year. But even so, there were 13,000 who had escaped the disease for every one who was stricken. Comparing 1949 with former years, health officers in New York City, Detroit and Chicago saw reason to hope that the outbreak was at or near its peak, and would soon taper...