Word: frequenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gatro-intestinal disturbance occurs among the student body. The usual symptoms are sudden in onset, with abdominal cramps, vomiting, diarrhea and prostration. The illness usually lasts two or three days. This type of outbreak occurs in every university, college and preparatory school in the land. They are no more frequent in colleges than in institutions, hotels, and restaurants that serve food to large numbers of people. They are more striking, however, because in the college, all cases come to the attention of the authorities, whereas restaurant and hotel guests scatter and seldom report their illness...
Actually Harvard puts more emphasis on sanitary conditions in its kitchens than any similar institution. Care is taken not only to guard the food itself, by buying from firms of known repute and subjecting the purchases to frequent chemical analyses to prove their worth, but also the staff mit to regular examinations. Yet even the most who cook and serve in the halls are made to sub-modern scientific precautions have failed to protect the University at all times, and infections like the present one have inevitably crept...
Although Chestertonian paradoxes are less frequent in his Autobiography than in the famed Father Brown stories, or The Man Who Was Thursday, they abound in his portraits of his contemporaries: Shaw, Wells, Belloc, Cunninghame Graham, Max Beerbohm, Sir James Barrie. Alternately scolding and admiring, he says that Shaw is no Irish rebel, that he is too "pro-British," a charge he seems to feel should cut the Irish dramatist to the quick. Chesterton and Shaw fought for 20 years. They debated on sex, socialism, Christianity, war, Ireland, Shakespeare, until they came to be stock figures in British intellectual life, being...
...more infested moments, has asked for "a supernatural network over five wires," and for "a spiritual radiophone in every home," puts forward as the central object of the movement God-control of every person's every act. God-control is acquired by the faithful as a result of frequent "quiet times" when uninterrupted meditation produces God's answer to any troublesome problem. To a certain extent this seems to be the old faith in the natural man, a reliance on the efficacy of the still, small voice of conscience...
...Librarians have wondered for years why the leather bindings of books in frequent use last longer than those which are rarely called for. Experiments by Chemists R. W. Frey and C. W. Beebe of the U. S. Department of Agriculture convinced them that salt from sweaty hands acts as a preservative...