Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...harsh sight for a freshman's eyes. In the common room buzzed two printers. In the bedroom sat Zach, frantically typing footnotes. He did not look up from under a three-day beard. Gil had been working on the bibliography at another Mac. Potato chip bags lay open on the bed; random chocolate chip cookies spotted the wood floors...
...Whether something is 100 percent safe, you really can't say," Makadon said. "The main thing is to use common sense...
...pretty intensive program," the dean says. "It guarantees that all students in the college will have a common ground for discussion...
...seems to me that Harvard minorities tend to group themselves in cliques. This is especially obvious at the Union, where the long tables are lined with groups of Blacks, Asians or Chicanos. Of course, there are perfectly good reasons why minority students who share a common cultural bond form support groups, either informally or through the various minority organizations on campus...
...quite alright for groups with a common heritage to band together to celebrate their culture and pursue their political objectives, but race alone seems an indefensible means of dividing students in the social setting...