Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...colleges are in an even more difficult spot than you pointed out. Besides needing common magic to separate the Cream from the cream, they have to perform the arcane wizardry which separates those who really want an Ivy education (of which there still aren't enough) from those who just want Ivy. LEWIS C. CADY '59 Brown University Providence...
Eloquently, De Gaulle conjured up the vision of "a European entente from the Atlantic to the Urals . . . this Western Europe which, in former times, was the dream of the wise and the ambition of the powerful." For the first time, De Gaulle conceded that the European Common Market might prove a step in the evolution of "an imposing confederation . . . a Western group at the very least equivalent to that which exists in the East." And, in words designed to soothe the divisive Franco-British feud over the Common Market, he declared that the Common Market nations "do not want this...
...Strauss first noted the symptoms in patients who had just bought small cars, discovered that the signs usually develop a day or two after the driver begins using the vehicle. The most common complaints are mild muscle spasms or muscle tenderness. The only sure way to relieve the symptoms is to stop driving, says Dr. Strauss, but small-car owners are more likely to make their malady a badge of brotherhood, like a dueling scar. "Once the diagnosis was established," Dr. Strauss notes, "the patients were content to live with their discomfort...
...Riklis has his eye on the 372-store H. L. Green chain. He says that he controls 15% of the outstanding common stock, will continue to buy until he gets control (an estimated 20% of the common stock). If he succeeds in acquiring Green, his chain-store empire will be second only to Woolworth...
...Pietro di Donato sees it, writing and bricklaying have a lot in common: "Your bread is not adulterated, not taken from another. You are creating something that will be here when your vegetable self has departed." In 1939, after Bricklayer di Donato turned to writing and his autobiographical Christ in Concrete became a bestseller, success paradoxically robbed him of both crafts: "I became too sophisticated for bricklaying and too confused to write...