21.   The popular wisdom has it that the black kids dominate football and basketball, the white kids soccer, softball and lacrosse.

22.   These men are not, as popular wisdom would have it, mostly working more to make up the lost pay.

23.   This history lesson helps explain why, contrary to popular wisdom, stocks can, indeed, fall alongside bond yields.

24.   Until recently, market scholars questioned that popular wisdom, but new research suggests that the technology investors are on solid ground in expecting a January bounce.

25.   Wet cloth is different but, once again, popular wisdom turns out to be inaccurate -- at least, in part.

26.   Yet others questioned that popular wisdom.

27.   Popular wisdom holds it lasted years.

28.   Against most popular wisdom, Beilin continues to argue that cooperation with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat remains the best answer to ending the attacks.

29.   Contrary to popular wisdom, the Impressionists were mainly city folk, and keenly in tune with bustling street life.

30.   He has gone against popular wisdom by advocating the government take on more, not less, debt.