Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Murray. One of Governor Murray's frequent boasts is that he has many friends, no intimates. This fact may explain in part why the man himself is such a bundle of contradictions. On the Oklahoma stump he dresses in the cheapest, sloppiest clothes, is careless in speech, indulges in vulgar mannerisms. But when he visited Washington last month and addressed an audience of cultured women he would have been almost unrecognizable to his Oklahoma friends. His diction was as correct as his clothes. His shoes were shined; a white handkerchief bobbed from his breast pocket; gone...
Sophistication takes a well-earned evening's rest. The blase affectations of the socially ambitions are held up to the scorching ridicule of Mr. Powers' homely eloquence until they are babbled to cringing subjection by his irrepressible tongue, reenforced with frequent inhibitions of well-spiked punch. He offers an injection of wholesome common sense and good-humored sentiment as a panacea "for what ails the damned theatre," as he quaintly phrases...
...wiping his brow, praising Allah, announcing his decision to abdicate. The Sultan of Muscat differs from most rulers in his feelings for the land of his birth. He hates the place. Muscat is the world's hottest city, with an average annual rainfall of only 3½ inches, frequent temperatures of 189 degrees in the sun. The Sultan spends most of his time in India, which he finds like Bar Harbor by comparison, but he spends Ramadan with his people. Short time ago he swore that this would be his last, abdicated in favor...
...York Times correspondent when General Uyeda arrived to take over all Japanese land operations last week were notable. "General Uyeda," cabled the correspondent, "is an extremely attractive personality. He is of medium height, is slender, nearly bald and speaks no English. Under a straggling, iron grey mustache, he Hashes frequent smiles, revealing teeth rimmed with gold...
...individual courses are to be reduced the tutorial system finally comes into its own. Since its inception more than a decade and a half ago the student has always been forced to cater both to it and to the old ideal of education by courses which involved frequent checks and stressed purely factual knowledge. Through the years there were progressive changes, to be sure: the introduction of the Reading Period; the Junior Divisionals in History, Government, and Economics; and the more recent modifications in the English Divisionals. But the present changes constitute the first complete adjustment to the tutorial system...