Word: uncommon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pocket Model D in 1900, APS (Advanced Photo System) in 1999 **From St. Paul Minn., to Minot, S.D., on the Great Northern Railway Sources: The People's Chronology, Uncommon Grounds, Lionel LLC, Eastman Kodak Co., Amtrak, The Great Northern Railway--A History, The Traveller's Official Railway Guide, U.S. Postal Service
...handsome, irrepressible romantic in those years, he once had to apologize to the husband of an old flame after Mileva discovered Einstein's renewed correspondence with her. He later complained that Mileva's pathological jealousy was typical of women of such "uncommon ugliness." Perhaps remorseful about the lost child and distanced by his absorption with his work--his only real passion--and his growing fame, Mileva became increasingly unhappy. On the eve of World War I, she reluctantly accompanied Einstein to Berlin, the citadel of European physics, but found the atmosphere insufferable and soon returned to Zurich with their...
...Uncommon Women and Others
...first glance, Uncommon Children could well be the title of a play depicting the journey of a few extraordinary young men and women through adolescence to their admission at Harvard College. But you won't find the Crimson Key society performing variations at information sessions. In fact, Uncommon Children comes from a combination of the titles of two plays --Uncommon Women and Others by Wendy Wasserstein and Moonchildren by Michael Weller--produced together in the Leverett Old Library though December...
...Uncommon Women and Others revolves around the lives of seven seniors and one freshman at Mt. Holyoke College in 1972, examining their experiences both in college and at a reunion six years later. While only a few of these women consider themselves "uncommon" in reference to societal expectations, they all have conflicting ideas about the changing times in which they live and about the adults that they are becoming. Their afternoons are full of tea and brandy, while their evenings are full of more risqu behavior: applying to law school or sneaking out to have sex. The play...