Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From flat Mt. Roraima the explorers-T. D. Carter, G. H. H. Tate and G. M. Tate (younger brother of G. H. H.)-leveled their binoculars across lower flat-topped mountains towards Brazil, British Guiana and Venezuela. They saw, through the frequent rain & mist, water dropping in a vertical fall 2,000 feet. They saw water flowing south down rills, brooks, creeks, rivers to the Amazon and thence eastward to the Atlantic; they saw dripping from jungle trees moisture that was to flow north through the muddy Orinoco and the cascading Essequibo rivers into the Caribbean...
...Chinese anarchy. Therefore his position in respect to a mere five carloads of smuggled machine gun parts was exquisitely awkward. No wonder then that Tcheng Loh betook his gangling, spidery self, last week, to the office of paunchy, sleepy-eyed French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, his friend and frequent counselor...
...Sybarites," citizens who inhabited the metropolis of Sibaris and were accused by the conquering Romans of sleeping upon rose leaves. Today its stupid people toil in almost feudal servitude upon lands chiefly owned by the Italian nobility. Murders are almost twice as common as in Sicily and thefts more frequent than in Sardinia...
...Sovereigns, temporal or spiritual, the Pope is the least frequent borrower of money. His finances, like his spiritual power, are immeasurable,occult-defying the statistical art. They are also ancient. Aaron of Lincoln, twelfth Century genius of Jewish finance in England, is credited with the initiation of large scale Church financial policy. It was Blount & Cie., French bankers, who issued the last Vatican bond offering, in 1886, when Paris was the money-lending centre of the world. Last week it was the Protestant house of Halsey, Stuart† & Co., of Chicago and New York, who announced a forthcoming issue...
Such is the claim of the "liberals" but as is a frequent fault with reformers, they fail to consider that while they are busy making plans for a better world, the majority of mankind must meantime carry on the everyday affairs of life. It is inevitable that they settle into a more or less permanent and conservative mold, on which it would be exceedingly difficult for liberal crusaders to make much impression. And if the liberally educated youth cannot retain his liberalism in hostile surroundings, it is as least as much the fault of his instruction as of the environment...