Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frequent criticism of brisk Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman's "Oxford Group Movement" or "First Century Christian Fellowship" has been that its members are too exclusively preoccupied with well-tailored, socially presentable people. Group members counter by telling how they "changed" (converted) an old Pennsylvania bootlegger called "Bill Pickle"; how in London Group workers live in slum quarters; how a poor little girl was changed, telling her mother that God wanted her to help with the housework...
...aggressive Harvard basketball team, showing considerable power, and rallying strongly in every emergency, snapped its losing streak by decisively defeating a speedy Brown quintet, 39 to 25, at Providence Saturday night. The game was characterized by wild passing and frequent fouls, with Harvard capitalizing on free throws to the sum of 11 points...
...Sharp, frequent and dramatic have been the family fights within Texas Corp., biggest independent oil company in the U. S. But nothing ever emerged for public inspection from Texaco's battle-torn board room until last autumn when Ralph Clinton Holmes, ousted as the company's chairman, gave Texaco's stockholders a flashback of internal tussles (TIME, Oct. 2). Mr. Holmes's heaviest fire was directed at John H. ("Jack") Lapham, chairman of the executive committee and one of three representatives of the Lapham family, whose meddling, said Mr. Holmes, always brought on unhappy boardroom scenes...
...little practice in intelligent discussion that he is hampered in his future work. Mr. Leighton points out that in some sections there are as many as fifty and the average number is twenty-five or over. In a section of over twenty-five, adequate discussion and frequent recitation are virtually impossible. At a time when the student is making the transition from the highly individual classroom instruction of prep school to the personal contact afforded by the tutorial conferences, he is apt to be lost in the shuffle and consequently to have difficulty in apprehending the aims of tutorial work...
...Freshman year, and in order that the first year men may receive more individual instruction, economic factors, at least in the introductory courses, should be overlooked to the extent of cutting down the larger sections so that none have a roll of more than twenty-five. By more frequent conferences with the advisers and the diminishing of the size of the sections more adequate preparation for an intelligent use of the tutorial system is assured...