Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forest rangers"; such men employed by the national parks and national monuments are "park rangers" ... A forest ranger in Death Valley would be an amazing phenome non. It's a long way between trees in that country . . . May I add that your mistake is indeed a very common...
...Third General Assembly closed last week on a note of hope. It took credit for the fact that its soothing, pale-green lounge had provided a common meeting ground for the U.S.'s Philip Jessup and Russia's Jakov Malik when they began negotiating the Berlin blockade's end. Actually the job the Assembly had done was middling. It had (among other things) admitted Israel to U.N.; defeated a Latin American motion to lift the diplomatic boycott of Spain; again asked the Big Five to curb their veto. Perhaps the most significant measure-though it had little...
...fours. In Izvestia, Party Polemicist Boris Lavrenev reported that a look at Antipin's family tree revealed a wretched bourgeois background. The professor had fought the Red army as a member of Admiral Kolchak's White Guard in 1919. Obviously, Lavrenev concluded, Antipin was nothing but "a common adventurer, slavishly addicted to idiotic . . . ravings...
...group rehearses twice-weekly at meetings in the Dunster Large Common Room under the leadership of Walter E. Albrechi, Jr. '49. Since the meetings usually come just before dinner, the Dunces frequently don't stop singing until their harmonies have entertained House diners...
...assertion from the FBI's Inspector Lee R. Pennington, who investigates bank frauds. Addressing a conference of the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks in Washington, Pennington said that most of last year's frauds (total lost: $3,000,000) were traceable to some fairly common human failings: gambling, drink, women. High living, big debts, bad business management were also to blame, and, in the case of thefts by women...