Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel, 68 member nations of the International Monetary Fund met last week to grapple with what Xenophon Zolotas, governor of the Bank of Greece, wryly termed "numismatic plethora." The inflated phrase aptly described the basic cause of inflation-a common crisis of too much money and too few goods. Not even the Greeks had a word for the cure. Yet all knew that the fund's work in stabilizing currencies by strategic loans was one of the free world's most powerful weapons...
EUROPE'S COMMON MARKET will speed moves by U.S. companies to open subsidiaries on Continent, thus get in under tariff wall. Heading in that direction, Pittsburgh's fast-growing Rockwell Manufacturing Co. (1956 sales: $115 million) will buy West Germany's Ilo Works, continue to make Ilo's diesel and gasoline engines there and also turn out the valves, pipeline meters and power tools that Rockwell makes...
...poor young fellow ... in 1660 . . . and away she gott to London, and did sett up for her selfe. She was a most exquisite beautie, as finely shaped as Nature could frame . . . and her price was very deare . . . Richard, Earle of Dorset, kept her [but] at last she grew common and infamous and gott the Pox, of which she died ... I remember thus much of an old song...
Medicine's most widespread and stubborn enemy, the common cold, has been forced into a small but significant retreat. Epidemiologist Winston H. Price, 33, of Johns Hopkins University, last week announced development of a vaccine-proved 80% effective in initial tests-to combat a major virus that may cause up to a third of all common colds...
...virus that the vaccine fights was first spotted by Dr. Price himself four years ago, remains the only common cold virus to be successfully isolated for vaccine development. Named JH (for Johns Hopkins), it was discovered by accident in 1953 during an influenza study, when a group of Hopkins nurses came down with stuffed-up noses, scratchy throats, mild fever and coughs. Dr. Price took nasal washings, isolated what he thought was a flu virus, but suspected when the nurses got no worse that he was dealing not with flu at all but with the common cold. Further testing took...