Word: frequent
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England soon realized the possibilities in the Cape and purchased it from the East India Company. Slavery was abolished, and affairs took on a better aspect. Meanwhile, the Boers who had gone to the Transvaal were oppressing the natives cruelly, and frequent complaints began to be heard. The Boers, however, soon formed an independent government and refused all allegiance to any outside power. A claim on the Orange Free State, made in 1857 by the Boers, was followed by years of internal strife and native revolts. In 1877 the government was deeply in debt and wholly without resources...
...were in a central location, are of little account beside the afternoons and evenings which are "free to most of us" and which conceivably would be spend in the club, shows nothing but the writer's misconception of the purpose and function of the Harvard Union. The men whose frequent presence in the Harvard Union is necessary to its greatest success are not men who can often afford an entire afternoon or evening; they are men who will most frequently drop in between whiles, for a few minutes relaxation before or after settling down to a lot of work...