Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...face of these common problems, U.S. educators are not standing idly by. Last year 14 educators, lawyers and businessmen formed a Commission on Financing Higher Education, with Columbia University's Dr. Frank D. Fackenthal as chairman and Columbia Political Scientist John D. Millett as executive director...
Elsewhere, in lesser ways, other colleges and universities have seen the wisdom of cooperating. There is the Farmington Plan, under which 54 great libraries' plan their buying in common to avoid needless competition; the Oak Ridge Institute for Nuclear Studies, where 24 universities do research together; Chicago's Midwest Interlibrary Center, serving eleven campuses of the Midwest; and Denver's Bibliographic Center for Research, serving the Rocky Mountain states...
...partial return for such cultural legacies as Shakespeare's plays, the British Common Law and fish & chips, the U.S. has transmitted to Britain in recent years a passion for the 100%-American chocolate milk shake and double frosted. Last October, alarmed at this drift toward such dairy delights, Satirist Maurice Lane Norcott attempted to warn readers of the London Daily Mail against the perils involved. Plumbing the darkest depths of his imagination, he envisioned a Hollywood soft drink fountain in the heart of London and called it "Mother Moo-moo's Milk...
...Socialist Dick Taverne: "American culture is a cheapening and degrading force . . . American politics are a poor advertisement for democracy; [and the] economic influence exercised by America is a disturbing force in the world ... I see in [America] no spiritual resources to raise her civilization above the level of the common business...
...drastic fillers are tried when human flesh is available. "There are few acts so basically revolting as cannibalism," say Dr. Keys and his associates. "However, to eat the bodies of the dead may not seem an unreasonable last resort to save the living. Surprisingly, the practice is never very common...