Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Selection Committees should endeavor to return to a fairer balance between athletics, leadership, and scholastic ability. Qualities of leadership are best developed through frequent contact with one's fellow men and through extra-curricular life in a great university rather than through constant haunting of a library. While it is obvious that high intellectual ability is essential, the recent overemphasis on this qualification and the tendency to sacrifice the other qualities which Rhodes envisaged are unfortunate...
Last Sunday evening a Freshman Amateur Hour was presented at the Union. It went over well; doubtless many men wished that such informal class gatherings might be more frequent. And I believe that last Sunday was the first time since the beginning of the academic year that a majority of the Freshmen were together under like circumstances...
...Hills Brothers Co., packers of Dromedary Dates. Long prominent in such groups as the New York State Advisory Commission on Minimum Wage and Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper's Business Advisory Council, he be came Assistant Secretary of Commerce in 1935, has since pleased Franklin Roosevelt by his frequent high-sounding definitions of New Deal intentions. Sample: "By some method yet to be discovered, it seems to me that industry must learn to function as a whole, not to advance its own private ends but to assist Democracy to act for the good...
Snip, Snip. The terrible crises which have been frequent in the lesser European countries since the War have bred statesmen with tough nerves. On the day Austria was being invaded, out to an orchard went Austrian Nazi Minister of Interior Dr. Seyss-Inquart, incipient Chancellor...
...child painters had turned imitative, muddying the pure well of crudity with inhibited attempts to be artistic. But under this age, the hugely scrawled and brightly colored pictures done by little boys & girls showed a splashing freedom of imagery and sometimes a direct seizure of character. They also showed frequent resemblance to the art of those moderns who distort for the sake of design...