Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...last week there were signs that Britain was having second thoughts. British economists pointed to a U.N. report that showed that increased trade between the Common Market nations accounted for 60% of the total rise in trade amongst European nations last year. From British officialdom came frank admissions that Britain had sorely misjudged Europe's political eagerness for unity, and the U.S.'s consistent effort to provide aid. and comfort to that drive...
More and more editorial voices urged that Britain should forthwith seek membership in the Common Market, arguing in effect, "If you can't lick 'em, join 'em." British businessmen, skeptical of the government's dreams of a compromise bridge between the Six and the Seven, are making a separate peace by opening factories within the Common Market or linking up with Common Market firms...
...with Their Wheels. Even Soviet bureaucrats were acting like capitalist bureaucrats. Several months ago the government ordered all officials and executives to turn in their state-owned vehicles to a common motor pool. The decree has been more honored in the breach than in the observance. One brewery director refused to surrender his Moskvich sedan, pleading that it was needed to deliver beer. Moscow police stopped a small delivery truck bearing the sign, "Home Delivery of Buns and Crullers," discovered that it was delivering the bakery manager to the railroad station to meet incoming relatives. A roving reporter from Komsomolskaya...
...navigation system is a common phenomenon first articulated scientifically little more than 100 years ago, when Austrian Physicist Johann Christian Doppler noted that sound waves coming from a moving object increase in frequency as the source of the sound approaches an observer, decrease as it moves away. Thus, in what has become the standard example of the Doppler effect, a train whistle seems to rise and fall in pitch as the train goes by. Similarly, the signals from a satellite increase in frequency as they move nearer to a receiver on earth, diminish as they move on. By measuring...
...such vigor and strength that some admirers swore he once carried a dead horse up three flights of stairs to be dissected. He had a common-law wife and an illegitimate son, who piously reported the poignant fact that in the 40 years before his death in 1806, at the age of 79, George Stubbs never had a drink of anything but water. Aside from that, little is known about him-except that at his peak he could command a higher price for the portrait of a horse than Sir Joshua Reynolds charged for an earl. There was good reason...