Word: commonized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is not because the clubs are the elitist centers of debauchery that they envision but rather because these people do not have the social skills common to the majority of our nation's college students. Perhaps, when these socially challenged students figure out that there is more to college life than classes and studying, there will be viable social options available to the entire student body...
Unfortunately things did not go as planned in Virginia, as the Crimson (0-2) dropped both matches, losing to No. 10 ranked William and Mary (7-0) on Sunday, 7-2, and again yesterday to No. 20 Virginia Common wealth...
...TENNIS AT VA. COMMON...
...companies in different industries, including some whose fortunes move up and down with the economy (like equipment manufacturers and financial firms) and some that don't (like food- and drugmakers). If you own too much stock in the company for which you've worked for decades--a common condition in these days of company stock options and company-stock matches in 401(k) plans--an unexpected setback for that company or its industry could wipe you out. Guy Cambie, a certified financial planner in Austin, Texas, urges investors to divorce themselves from the sentiment of any particular stock. One solution...
...education in Latin, including oratory and letter writing in the style of characters from classical myth and history. Students also had to be able to expand and embellish on existing literary works, much as Shakespeare did with Henry V and Julius Caesar. People shouldn't be surprised that a commoner should write so knowingly of the nobility. All playwrights wrote about aristocrats. Says Bate: "What is much harder to imagine is an aristocrat like Oxford reproducing the slang of the common tavern or the technicalities of glovemaking...