Contrary to culinary lore, barley does not have to take a long time to cook.
Contrary to popular lore, no single musical debut is a career-maker or career-breaker.
(Contrary to common lore, officials at Ellis Island rarely outright changed immigrant names but often transliterated them — from Cyrillic script, for instance, into the Latin alphabet).
Also contrary to popular lore that innovative ideas spring only from fresh, young minds in dorm rooms, a Northwestern University study found that people who are 55 and even 65 have more innovation potential than 25-year-olds.
In some cases, though, a foreign body (usually a parasite and, contrary to popular lore, seldom a grain of sand) invades the mollusk, most often a clam or oyster.
Contrary to baseball lore, it should not surprise us that most teams do not come back; five games out two-thirds of the way through the season projects to seven and a half games at the end.
The backbeat of the new movie is driven by an insistence that the Beatles, contrary to popular lore (and to the bragging of Rolling Stones fans), found their greatness as a live band.
(He did not, contrary to popular lore, release a product called Purple Haze; in interviews, he sounded quite miffed that anything emerging from his laboratory could be thought to cause haziness rather than the crystalline clarity for which he personally vouched).
But the process must be preserved, because contrary to reformster lore, there are not a gazillion bad teachers clogging schools nationwide.
