Word: frequented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...longer live without it, and it will continue to voice itself within him of its own accord." The peasant's teacher trains him to say the prayer over and over until he can repeat it more than 12,000 times a day without strain and "this frequent service of the lips imperceptibly becomes a genuine appeal of the heart." The prayer becomes a constant, warming presence within him that brings a "bubbling...
...Buganda, then was refused permission by the apartment owner. The Negro players of Anna Lucasta and Porgy and Bess had no trouble obtaining rooms in the best hotels. But when they settled down to a long run and tried to get apartments, they reported refusals and excuses. A frequent one: "Of course, I don't have any prejudice myself, but we have American tenants here, and they wouldn't like it." (Blaming Americans is a familiar exculpation: when the Bermuda legislature recently decided to maintain discrimination in the island's hotels, cinemas and restaurants, and segregation...
...supposing that Alice's relations with her 14-year-old protégé were more than those of a dedicated teacher and a pupil in whom she recognized the spark of genius. But smalltown tongues wag easily, and Saint-Maur's gossips, titillated by frequent glimpses of Alice and Raymond strolling in deep communion by the river's edge, let their speculation run free. When Alice's poilu husband Gaston came back from the war a hero, the cheers that greeted him were mingled with many a knowing snicker, snickers directed both...
...Railroadynast W. (for William) Averell Harriman.*A sometime interior decora tor, Marie inspected the official silver service, then looked over the mansion with a practiced eye. She allowed that "it doesn't need much." Among the additions she planned for the place were the five Harriman grandchildren as frequent visitors, plus her personal collection of top American paintings. Marie, who ran a successful Manhattan art gallery for twelve years after her marriage to "Honest Ave," intended to leave their famed accumulation of French modern art at their Manhattan home. At the windup of her tour through her newest home...
...further complicating factor in every index is the frequent stock splits, which distort the statistics. If a Dow-Jones stock is split three for one, for example, it is given a statistical weight greater than its former importance. Hence a stock like General Electric, which has been split twelve times since 1929, is relatively more important in the average than one such as General Foods or Woolworth which has had no splits...