Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even here in Beantown, in an Adams house common room straining to hear John Sterling and Michael Kay's call over an Internet feed, temporarily abandoning Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman for the exploits of another New York school, Well's quest for baseball legend shone through...
...signs as well as the severity of RSI can vary from case to case, but the most common symptoms are pain and tingling in the hands, wrists or arms...
...Fiske. Not Hennessey-Fiske. In a recent article about the Boylston Speaking Prize winners, The Crimson managed to misspell repeatedly the name of one of its own executive editors--a name which appears on the masthead, bylines and credits almost every day. The error highlighted by far the most common category of complaints against the Crimson: that of misspelling, misquoting and reporting of inaccurate facts...
...first part of Norretrander's book. The author lingers on science's failed attempts to exorcise "Maxwell's Demon." an imaginary creature who can create heat without doing any work, thus circumventing the second law by simply separating molecules based upon their relative velocities. Norretranders gives a more common-place analogy, whereby one can heat a room simply by opening the window to let fast molecule in and slow molecules our; in the end, however, Norretranders simply concludes that we can never achieve this "because of our own inadequacies, not the universe's...we are too big and clumsy...
...game show contestant with any shred of sensibility, never buy the vowels, You will just be wasting your money, and it does not take a world-class physicist or mathematician to realize that what the letter following that "q" must be. Norretranders' advice, upon distillation, condenses into pure common sense...