Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supercharging, higher compression, stronger parts and fuels with higher octane rating. Pratt & Whitney began to think that not much more could be asked of radial engines in single nine-cylinder banks. Since 1929 they have been tinkering with 14 cylinders in two banks, with smaller bores and lighter, more frequent power impulses...
Herewith Dr. Newcomer's solution of a frequent patient-doctor quandary: "If you consult a doctor who, you believe, does not understand you or your case, you should feel perfectly at liberty to change physicians. The polite, kind way to make this switch is to notify the doctor, either verbally, or by letter, that you have decided to dispense with his service. A doctor appreciates this frankness. However, he is so accustomed to handling human nature that if you say nothing at all to him and simply go to another physician, he will feel you have acted well within...
...Roman Catholics the 40 days of Lent mean frequent light meals, frequent meatless meals. To most Unitarians and Congregationalists Lent involves no extraordinary self-denial. In recent years churches of the middle ground-Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist-have observed Lent with increasing mystical piety. Last week Easter Sunday brought joyous release to a Methodist minister whose Lenten fast had caused him as much belt-tightening as Catholics experience. However, Rev. William H. Alderson, supervisor of the Methodist Church on Long Island's North Shore, had curbed his appetite for economic as well as religious reasons. For 40 days Methodist...
...left precise specifications. In 1848 Girard opened its first class of 100 fatherless boys. Within the building, which a hostile press called "The Icy Ghost of Two Million Dollars," a hardboiled staff shaved the orphans' heads, scrubbed their necks, put them through a cheerless routine of study and frequent canings...
...outlaws, he ravages the State from end to end, not, like Robin Hood, to protect the common people, but solely for bloody revenge. Result is the goriest picture of the year, well-acted, beautifully photographed, but prevented from being a second Viva Villa by its sententious moralizing, its frequent digression into scenes suited only to light operetta...