Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...discouraging. So Garcia began acting differently. When his Defense Secretary, Alejo Santos, was charged with smuggling gifts past customs after a trip abroad. Garcia ordered an investigation instead of brushing it away with his usual benign air. Then he called Nacionalista leaders together to say that corruption was so common that "no less than a total effort is necessary to reduce this social cancer to a minimum...
...press has constitutional guarantees and historical precedents. The first journalist with national impact was undoubtedly Thomas Paine, who emigrated to the Colonies from England in 1774 and found his calling: diarist of the Revolution. His pamphlets, independently published but genuine precursors of interpretive journalism, inflamed the colonists to revolt; Common Sense sold better than 300,000 copies, turned Tories into Whigs, and was read to troops standing at attention in the field...
Primary hypertension, said Dr. Perera, is twice as common in women as in men. The women, but not the men, tend to be overweight. The average age at which it can be detected is about 32. And proven cases of onset beyond age 50 are so rare that Dr. Perera concluded: "You have it or you don't, and if you're past 50 and haven...
...After 14 years of negative results, despite the willingness of 6,000 human volunteers to catch cold for science, workers at Britain's famed Common Cold Research Unit (TIME, Sept. 21, 1953) reported that they have isolated what appears to be three strains of common cold virus. They will not grow under the conditions favored by most viruses, but need a cooler and more acid medium (like the lining of human nasal passages). The strains are so choosy that some nourish only in cells from embryonic human kidneys-in which others will not grow at all. Upshot: there...
...stockholders, there was good news on all sides as company after company raised dividends. International Business Machines hiked its quarterly dividend on common stock from 60? to 75?. Swift & Co., the nation's largest meat packer, declared a special dividend of 25? a share in addition to its regular quarterly dividend of 40? a share. Directors of American Tobacco Co. voted an extra dividend of $1 on top of its regular $1 quarterly dividend. American News Co. raised its quarterly dividend from 40? to 50? a share, Johnson & Johnson from 20? to 25?, Associated Dry Goods Corp. from...