Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...town in a huff (actually, in a green Rolls Royce with red leather upholstery) and headed for the 20th century in Lausanne. Switzerland, followed by his chauffeur, maid and luggage in a second car. "The Aga Khan," it was explained, "receives and sends many letters and needs to make frequent phone calls abroad...
Niebuhr attacks the frequent clerical fallacy that under socialism "motives of service" would supplant the "profit motive." That idea "invested a collectivist system with a moral sanction it did not deserve . . . The so-called 'profit motive' can hardly be eliminated under any system . . . Every parson who speaks grandly about supplanting [it] exemplifies it when he moves to a new charge because the old one did not give him ... a salary adequate for his growing family...
Among women born in the early 1900s intercourse before marriage was twice as frequent as among those born in the '90s. More than one out of three lost their virginity by age 25. and three out of five, if they were still unmarried...
...House murals his father painted, and set himself a breathtaking pace that allows little time for social life (which he doesn't care for), bridge (he is one of the best players in Boston) or even the leisurely perusal of a newspaper. In the past the Herters spent frequent holidays in South Carolina at Mrs. Herter's family's 12,000-acre game preserve (Herter is a crack shot). Nowadays they occasionally get away for a few 'days at Mountainy Pound Club near Bangor, Maine, but far more frequently go to their comfortable, 150-year...
...complain-legitimately-that the burden does not fall equally on local and transcontinental lines, and that long haul trucks are often unfairly penalized. But the trucking industry, a burly, brawling youngster which owes much of its growth to World War II, has not helped its case by its frequent contempt for present laws, fair or not. In Georgia, where trucks are limited to a weight of 18,000 Ibs. per axle, many truckers send out spotters in plain cars who pass the word whenever they find a state crew setting up scales along a highway to catch overloaders. (Even...