Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...photograph of the stage play acted by a fair stock company. Early in its proceedings you realize with a shock that it was this play that brought the useful word "acclimatized" into the current argot. There is also, as the young Englishman, new to Africa, proceeds toward moral degeneration, frequent mention of "damp rot." Its novelty is gone, but White Cargo is still an effective piece of theatre, ironic in spite of its loquacity. Best shot: the Englishman whose undoing has been traced being carried out to the ship to be sent home while his successor, doomed for a similar...
...lineup in the second half was shifted and frequent substitutions made, but the Freshmen nevertheless continued to outclass their opponents, who scored but 10 points. Of the ten Reserve players used, only four were able to score from the floor HARVARD '33 U.S.N. RESERVE Kimbrough, Mindlin, Renshaw, l.f. r.f., C. Dame, Stdell Schroeder, Matursevitch, Johnson, r.f. l.f., Abbot, White Davidson, Upton, White, Glavin...
...which set up U. S. control over civil aeronautics. Never radical, he did not favor, after the Aircraft Inquiry of 1925, a united Army & Navy air department. He took the lead in U. S. commemoration of the first Wright flight at Kitty Hawk, N. C. He makes frequent and long speeches in the Senate on the need for aviation development, for more airports. He has a bill pending to enlarge the Department of Commerce's powers in investigating civil air accidents. He is the Senate's most airminded Senator, might well be rated its aeronautical expert. His zeal...
...made it by much bartering and foregathering with his fellow man. Day after day he has gone to a skyscraper club for lunch?alone, or possibly with his partner and son, Charles Evans Hughes Jr.* with whom he has returned quickly to the office. Even on his frequent trips to Washington, where many a public man would be flattered to be his host, he has followed his lonely course, taking many of his meals alone...
...occasion was an exhibition of work by Samuel Johnson Woolf, frequent TIME cover-artist, whose specialty is drawing and interviewing celebrated people. Artist Woolf has a psychological as well as artistic knack for his work. He gets not only good likenesses, but good talk. Many of the famed are either brusque or secretive with newsmen, strangers. But while Artist Woolf sketches renowned features he says just the things to stimulate the response of renowned personalities. Onetime Crown Prince Frederick William of Germany willingly confessed his identity to Artist Woolf while stopping incognito in Rome, sat for him in a hotel...