Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them that was exactly why the Journal had published the editorial [article], and that in the next issue there would be another for those women who might have missed his first." Then Mr. Bok dropped the whole subject, but kept on crusading against the public drinking cup and the common towel...
With his anti-syphilis campaign in this state of successful momentum Surgeon General Parran turned to Cancer. Before Congress were bills for a Federal institute to concentrate on this second most common cause" of death in the nation (TIME, July 5), Dr. Parran went up the Hill...
...These findings," said this doctor of medicine who was converted when an osteopath cured him of colitis, "check with the fact that minor accidents are a common cause of sterility in women. Hunting field accidents frequently lead to subsequent sterility. The spine is liable to become twisted when women ride sidesaddle. In badminton and tennis, it is very easy to produce an osteopathic lesion. A badly done swallow [U. S.: swan] dive may have similar results. Overindulgence in sports and the craze for speed are in a general way favorable to barrenness. . . . Quite frequently a patient consults an osteopath...
...installation of 24 elevators in New York County Courthouse, cost: $400,000. Its biggest job at present is being done for the Library of Congress. First disclosure of the company's financial status occurred last week when Westinghouse bought it from the Sees for 10,000 shares of common stock, worth $1,490,000 at the market price. Assets of the company were estimated at $1,068,000. Sales in 1936 were $1,650,750, compared to $1,262,293 in 1935. After a loss in 1935 of $73,945, the company made $3,348 last year...
...Chesapeake is concerned, the merger offers no complications. It has only common stock outstanding, and its shareholders will be offered the choice of either one and one-half shares of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. common stock, the holding company's principal asset, or one share of a prior preferred stock in the new company. Alleghany's capitalization is more complicated-common stock, two issues of preferred, three bond issues. Two of the bond issues will be assumed by the new company. Holders of the third issue, the famed 5s of 1950, will be offered $200 in cash...