Word: uncommon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roque, quiet residential quarter of Paraguay's capital, Asunción, there was an atmosphere of uncommon agitation last week. Ragged newsboys chewing wild oranges filled the streets, shouting thickly "Votación National!" Huge posters announced the Revolutión Nacionalista Paraguaya. Beswastikaed cops patrolled the streets. To the Colegio Alemán continually went little groups of three or four ragged, sometimes barefoot, men, solicitously escorted by well-dressed attendants who passed them inside and went forth again to seek other groups. The Colegio Alemán is one of ten electoral centers in San Roque...
...none of the cases did Leonski criminally attack his victims. He showed a not uncommon voice fetishism, unconsciously linking the voices of his victims with that of his mother...
...Professor Friedrich, himself a high ranking member of that aristocracy, is still sufficiently plebian to assert his faith in the common man's capacity for self-government. This faith is "an extraordinary one." Historically considered, it has often remained inarticulate, since by nature "the intellectual is predisposed toward the uncommon man: he strives to be uncommon." But let the uncommon man, the trained expert, be faced with the concerns of the community and "he is apt to be as much of a propagoose as any ordinary citizen, if not more so." The moral is plain. We need to insist, most...
Saboteur's ingredients are not uncommon, but Master Hitchcock deals them out in a sinister manner that makes them appear so. The story is concerned with the efforts of a Pacific Coast aircraft-factory mechanic (Robert Cummings) to track down the man (Norman Lloyd) who set fire to the plant. That is not easy, for Cummings himself is mistakenly wanted by the police as the saboteur...
...illuminated and the other is kept dark, the system becomes a galvanic cell in which chemical energy, formed by the conversion of light, is itself immediately converted into electrical energy." Galvanic cells and batteries-usually making current from the slow dissolving of zinc in sulfuric acid-are not uncommon, but Rabinowitch's is unique in that it will never wear...