Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Aureomycin attacks some virus-like organisms, and some common colds are caused by a virus. So, in a rigidly controlled test, the medical staff of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point tried the golden antibiotic on 154 cadets with colds. At the same time, they gave harmless yellow capsules to 155 other grey-uniformed snifflers. In the New England Journal of Medicine the medics had to admit defeat: aureomycin is just one more thing that doesn't cure a cold...
...radio waves from Andromeda proved also that radio stars are not peculiar to the "local" galaxy, i.e., the Milky Way. They are probably common in all , the galaxies scattered through the depths of space. Dr. A. C. B. Lovell, head of Jodrell Bank, suspects that they are just as numerous as the visible stars. They may be stars being formed, he speculates, out of interstellar gas. They may be dying stars (black dwarfs) too cool to shed visible light. Or they may be something new and still undreamed of by astronomers...
...Roman Catholic cathedral. Both Northern and Southern Irishmen think of it as a symbol of their golden age 1,500 years ago when Ireland was a small bright spot in a Europe plunging down to darkness. The two hostile factions of modern Ireland hold little else in common...
...Lindsay, director of Armagh Observatory (founded 1790), has faith in the planetarium as a peacemaker. Under its domed ceiling, he said, both Northerners and Southerners can enjoy St. Patrick's stars, and through them learn to know the real stars, which are common to all Ireland...
...this attitude is the exception. Most colleges share the sentiments of Brandeis, which does not allow women in men's dormitories at any time because "men's bedrooms open off the men's common rooms...