Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nature of his statement was intended to dispel the sort of confusion that attended the Administration's handling of the President's previous nose operation last July. Then it was six days before Reagan took questions on the subject. The diagnosis, now as then: basal-cell carcinoma, the most common and least dangerous form of cancer. The second lesion on the President's nose was removed by a Washington dermatologist, whom the Administration refuses to identify, in a short operation performed in the White House doctor's office under local anesthetic. Reagan explained that his doctors had been "keeping track...
...Crimson looked at the race strategically. It employed the fast start to avoid dropping back early, a common happening in meets earlier in the season...
eight: the most common shell in intercollegiate rowing. An eight has eight sweep oarsmen...
...following 18 students faced charges from the CRR for their involvement in two spring anti-apartheid protests--the April 24 sit-in at the 17 Quincy St. headquarters of Harvard's governing boards and the May 2 blockade of a South African diplomat in the Lowell House Junior Common Room. The CRR yesterday served 10 students with a suspended requirement to withdraw from the University for their actions at Lowell House, and formally admonshed the 11 students charged with participation in the 17 Quincy St. sit-in. NAME PUNISHMENT Anthony A. Ball '86 Admonition for 17 Quincy; Suspended Requirement...
...Lane's battle against the unrequited love songs that invade his car stereo. These gags play on the real perceptions of teenage life in a surreal way, like the better moments of Fast Times at Ridgemont High. But most of the gags are borrowed from the more common genre of teenage film. They are simple improbable cartoon slapstick like when Lane's brother builds a space shuttle, or when Lane's food walks away from him. This brand of humor is only remotely cute, and not at all funny...