Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your statement (TIME, Nov. 30,) "Natural gas ... is often disliked by hou: wives as it carbonizes more quickly, clogs stove burners, dirties pots and pans" endorses erroneous impression. Correctly burned, natural gas produces no more dirt than manufactured gas. The fallacy arises from the frequent misuse, for natural gas, of stoves designed for the lighter, quicker burning, manufactured gas Complaints also arise when stoves adjusted for natural gas are used for manufactured gas. The change in adjustment is easily made a gas companies which change over from man factured to natural gas usually send their 01 mechanics to adjust...
...amount of facility, but the Boston Garden would obviously be neither available, nor possible for House teams. The rinks on Soldiers Field have been too poorly kept up to assure any regular use. Otherwise the hockey enthusiast has had to make the most of the poor and not too frequent ice of the Charles. If the inter-House sports are to be successful some better facilities must be made possible...
...indeed the beloved leveret will frequent his castle no more, the university has suffered an irreplaceable loss. A nondescript jackrabbit might satisfy the vulgar and undiscriminating, but only the original leporine monarch or his direct descendant could command the loyalty of the legitimists...
These changes are frequent. The best classical scholar of my year had specialized in mathematics at school until he was thirteen or fourteen. Of the four men in my class at Queen's who distinguished themselves in classics at the end of their second year, two went over to European history. Professor A. N. Whitehead, now of Harvard, did classics at school, and has since distinguished himself principally in mathematics and philosophy. It is erroneous to think of this scholarship system as fixing the boy's line of development. In a way it makes change more likely by insisting that...
...effort. The entire book would prove of valuable assistance to students of American history and expansion. In fact, it may well be taken as a jovial and sympathetic lecture on the social and intellectual history of the United States during the pre-War of 1812 period. At first the frequent use of obsolete words in conversation leads to a measure of resentment, for one fears that the writer is setting out to display a large and scholarly knowledge of the period under his pen. But none can condemn him for not at once setting his readers at ease. Nothing...