Word: frequenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...antidote to the miscellaneous character of American curricula. Students there are trained in fundamentals and are steered away from any specialization which tends toward a vocation. Furthermore the acquirement of knowledge is a matter of self-discipline and individual responsibility to the German undergraduate rather than the too-frequent American custom of coaching from the dean's office...
...couldn't see my mother lose her home. ... I made five or six payments. . . . It's hard to see a girl like Clara with everything and no respect for anything." Secretary de Boe sometimes paid out her own funds for her employer's liquor. At frequent intervals she brightened the famed red shade of her employer's hair. Miss Bow, she said, liked to play poker six nights a week, generously bought watches, rings for her men friends, of whom Miss de Boe mentioned five - Gary Cooper, Lothar Mendez, Harry Richman, Dr. Earl Pierson, Rex Bell...
...Frequent in London lately have been scenes where British stockholders heckled and insulted a management unable to return profits. Last week in London there was another such shocking meeting, more shocking because the stockholders were those of the venerable Hudson's Bay Co. Ltd., whose ships have successfully conquered stormy arctic waters for 261 years, whose trappers and coureurs de bois opened the Canadian wilderness. Not successfully did Hudson's Bay Co. conquer its stockholders' storm. When the meeting broke up, Charles Vincent Sale was no longer governor. But, eyes flashing, he had said...
...school in a valiant Old Boys' soccer match staged on the laws of the Bishop's residence, Fulham Palace. Soccering well the Rt. Hon. & Rt. Rev. scored three of his victorious team's eight goals. Score 8 to 4. Festivities followed in the Palace. A frequent feat of the Soccering Bishop: playing tennis with his friend Mrs. Helen Wills Moody...
...knows what day it was: June 16, 1904. Each of Ulysses' 18 episodes, besides parelleling similar scenes in the Odyssey, represents a different Art (e. g. architects philology) and Bodily Organ (esophagus, heart) and is told with a different and appropriate technique (narrative, catechizing). With his running comment, frequent quotations, scholarly footnotes, Translator Gilbert gives you almost a substitute for the book itself...