There is much to be said for a college that, while happily attuned to the sophisticated Ivies, still gives its students a chance to get up early in the morning and drive along back roads where a glimpse of small game, deer, or even bear is not uncommon.

It is not uncommon for long queues to form early in the morning of 26 December, hours before the opening of shops holding the big sales, especially at big-box consumer electronics retailers.

It was not uncommon for the early romantic comedy film to also be a screwball comedy film.

Sales of the machine were never very large ; as of the early 2000s, surviving machines are quite uncommon, fetching high prices as collector's items.

But for someone who survived past these early hazards, living into their sixties or seventies would not be uncommon.

These misuses of this early machine were not uncommon.

Thus, records were not uncommon in home audio systems into the early 1990s.

When early Saint books were republished in the 1960s to the 1980s, it was not uncommon to see freshly written introductions by Charteris apologizing for the out-of-date tone ; according to a Charteris " apology " in a 1969 paperback of Featuring the Saint, he attempted to update some earlier stories when they were reprinted but gave up and let them sit as period pieces.

In the early 20th century, lynchings were not uncommon in Oklahoma, as part of a continuing effort by whites to assert and maintain social dominance.

Console trackballs, once common in the early 1980s, are now fairly uncommon: the Atari 2600 and 5200 consoles had one as an optional peripheral, with a joystick as standard.

This presented a problem with early installations that borrowed one unused twisted pair for telephone traffic but those installations were uncommon.

It is not uncommon for church attendance to shift on days when a late morning or early afternoon game is anticipated by a local community.

Straight rods are also sometimes used for the same purposes, and were not uncommon in early 19th century New England.

Crocus flowers and leaves are protected from frost by a waxy cuticle ; in areas where snow and frost occasionally occur in the early spring, it is not uncommon to see early-flowering crocus blooming through a light late snowfall ( right ).

In the early 20th century it was not uncommon to see a bride wearing a darker-colored dress.

In the early days, it was not uncommon for cattle and hogs to run loose through town.

In no-limit tournaments, players will sometimes take this risk even early in the betting ; for example, in some no-limit Texas Hold ' Em tournaments, it is not uncommon for players to bet " all-in " before the flop.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, it was not uncommon for hard rock or heavy metal groups to have a DJ.

Pepper ( both long and black ) was known in Greece at least as early as the 4th century BCE, though it was probably an uncommon and expensive item that only the very rich could afford.

Recent scholarship has noted that, although surviving early examples are now uncommon, human figurative art was a continuous tradition in Islamic lands in secular contexts ( such as literature, science, and history ); as early as the 9th century, such art flourished during the Abbasid Caliphate ( c. 749-1258, across Spain, North Africa, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Mesopotamia, and Persia ).

Prior to that, and particularly in the early 1990s, it was not uncommon for affiliates to preempt part or all of ABC's cartoon lineup with local programming.

This practice was not uncommon in the other regions in the 1970s and early 1980s, but the practive was dropped.

It is also not uncommon for adults in the late 20th / early 21st centuries to have dual or multiple careers, either sequentially or concurrently.

He assures us, early in the Poetics, that all art is `` imitation '' and that all imitation gives pleasure, but he distinguishes between art in general and poetic art on the basis of the means, manner, and the objects of the imitation.

If the wedding party lasted late, and the travel schedule means there are only a few hours before resuming the trip or making an early start, the husband may forestall tensions and uncertainties by confiding to his bride that lying in each other's arms will be bliss enough for these few hours.

This bodyguard function was often executed by the leader's most loyal warriors, and was extremely effective throughout most of early human history, leading assassins to attempt stealthy means, such as poison ( which risk was answered by having another person taste the leader's food first ).

In early 1964, Benny and Christina joined a group with the odd name " Elverkets Spelmanslag " (" The Electricity Board Folk Music Group "), who by no means was a folk music ensemble: the name was a punning reference to their electric instruments.

Since the early 20th century it has been commonly accepted that Old Irish Bel ( l ) taine is derived from a Common Celtic * belo-te ( p ) niâ, meaning " bright fire " ( where the element * belo-might be cognate with the English word bale in ' bale-fire ' meaning ' white ' or ' shining '; compare Anglo-Saxon bael, and Lithuanian / Latvian baltas / balts, found in the name of the Baltic ; in Slavic languages byelo or beloye also means ' white ', as in Беларусь ( White Russia or Belarus ) or Бе ́ лое мо ́ ре Sea ).

The absence of native British literature during the early part of the first millennium means that Britain owes its knowledge of Boudica's rebellion solely to the writings of the Romans.

" His early years were spent with his mother and brother in the London district of Kennington ; Hannah had no means of income, other than occasional nursing and dressmaking, and Chaplin Sr. provided no support for his sons.

In Greek, the adjective kyriak-ós /- ē /- ón means " belonging, or pertaining, to a Kýrios " (" Lord "), and the usage was adopted by early Christians of the Eastern Mediterranean with regard to anything pertaining to the Lord Jesus Christ: hence " Kyriakós oíkos " (" house of the Lord ", church ), " Kyriakē " (" day of the Lord ", i. e. Sunday ), or " Kyriakē proseukhē " ( the " Lord's prayer ").

Sir Charles Wheatstone discovered its principle and applied it as early as 1838 to the construction of a cumbersome but effective instrument, in which the binocular pictures were made to combine by means of mirrors.

This was the background to the concept of Messiahship in early Christianity, which interpreted the career of Jesus " by means of the titles and functions assigned to David in the mysticism of the Zion cult, in which he served as priest-king and in which he was the mediator between God and man.

Charge can be measured by a number of means, an early instrument being the gold-leaf electroscope, which although still in use for classroom demonstrations, has been superseded by the electronic electrometer.

Different researchers have postulated that without the aid of modern computer graphics, early investigators were limited to what they could depict in manual drawings, so lacked the means to visualize the beauty and appreciate some of the implications of many of the patterns they had discovered ( the Julia set, for instance, could only be visualized through a few iterations as very simple drawings hardly resembling the image in Figure 3 ).

Lacking even modest government-directed land reforms, illegal squatting became the primary means for poor people to gain land throughout the early 1970s.

Formal schooling in a classroom setting has been the most common means of schooling throughout the world, especially in developed countries, since the early and mid 19th century.

Tricksters of various sorts are shown on the early postcards, but not the means of appeasing them ".

Since the early days of writing politicians, diplomats and military commanders understood that it was necessary to provide some mechanism to protect the confidentiality of correspondence and to have some means of detecting tampering.

Regan wanted President Reagan to address the Iran-Contra matter in early 1987 by means of a press conference, though Nancy refused to allow Reagan to overexert himself due to a recent prostate surgery and astrological warnings.

File: Johannes Kepler 1610. jpg | Johannes Kepler ( 1571 — 1630 ): used the accurate observations of Tycho Brahe to formulate three fundamental laws of planetary motion, described elliptical motion of planets around the sun, developed early telescopes, invented the convex eyepiece, discovered a means of determining the magnifying power of lenses.

Some early PDAs were able to connect to the Internet indirectly by means off an external modem connected via the PDA's serial port or " sync " connector, or directly by using an expansion card that provided an Ethernet port.

In reference to the early Kingdom of Rome ( as opposed to the republic or empire ) " the legion " means the entire Roman army.

Models for the Red Brigades included the Latin American urban guerrilla movements-volumes on the Tupamaros published by Feltrinelli were influential, " a sort of do-it-yourself manual for the early Red Brigades " ,-and also the Italian partisan movement of 1943-45 which was interpreted as an example of a youthful minority using violent means for just ends.

In it he states, "[...] the early discovery that the great Andromeda spiral had the quite exceptional velocity of – 300 km (/ s ) showed the means then available, capable of investigating not only the spectra of the spirals but their velocities as well.

A Scandinavian origin has been proposed ( compare, for example, Norwegian slengenamn, which means " nickname "), but is discounted by the Oxford English Dictionary based on " date and early associations ".

This early work went unnoticed, and the field was relatively quiet until the late 1960s when cognitive psychologists, including Melton and Landauer & Bjork, explored manipulation of repetition timing as a means to improve recall.