Word: uncommon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chicago wasn't ready to party. Ralph Kiner flattened balls, but did so in Pittsburgh, which is the Big City only if you're in Cincinnati...where Frank Robinson was huge, before he went to (equally frowzy) Baltimore. You get the idea: it's an uncommon man at an odd moment who can play in the league we're speaking...
...know her well. I've worked with her, she is a superb legislator, she is bright and energetic, with an uncommon degree of common sense. We are delighted to have her as a fellow," he said...
...point in the season, the Crimson playedwithout Tom Blake, Kunj Majmudar, Scott Clark andJohn Doran, all of whom were in the top six. Yet,with all these injuries stacked up against them,Harvard didn't skip a beat, running through itsregular season opponents with uncommon ease. Itwas not until the match with Virginia Tech thatthe Crimson looked vulnerable...
...addition to more routine incidents of crime such as thefts and acts of vandalism, the 1997-98 school year saw a number of uncommon campus crimes involving students as victims as well as perpetrators...
...young man--or womanhood. Harvard's famous house system, however appealingly genteel, addresses neither of these gaps and remains grossly inadequate to undergraduate needs, the ratio of students to master being far too huge and the accident of a happy match between student and master being far too uncommon. Is this the environment to which we would unreservedly consign undergraduate women...