Word: frequenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your Sept. 28 issue, frequent reference is made to a misleading weather forecast given President Conant on the day of the Harvard Tercentenary celebration of Sept. 18. I probably am the meteorologist referred to in the article, who advised President Conant that "there would be less than 0.1 inch (specifically, I said, 0.05 to 0.06 inch) intermittent rain before 12 noon, and that it would be increasing after that hour to become heavy by the evening, with strong NE wind...
Electricity may cure the diseased facial nerve and restore action to the features. When that fails, Surgeons Tickle and Sullivan splice a piece of healthy nerve taken from the patient's thigh into the dying nerve of his face. The frequent success of this reparative operation was spoiled by an occasional misadventure. In some patients the operation caused a mad, uncontrollable jigging and grimacing of the treated half of the face...
...Frequent substitution by Harvard coaches, endeavoring to give all the players an opportunity to demonstrate their abilities in a scrimmage with an outside team, tended somewhat to break up the home team combinations...
...Moines speech was strictly agricultural. Alf Landon told his listeners what he would bid for the farm vote against the bids hastily and simultaneously made last week by the New Deal. Applause was more frequent than in most Landon speeches. When he said of the New Deal farm program, "like the automobile manufacturers, the Administration believes in bringing out a new model every year," he got laughter as well as cheers. Next day he lunched with State GOP Chairman Carl Cook, 300 newspaper editors and 99 farmers, dined that evening with Cartoonist "Ding" Darling...
...glass windows, halting traffic with mid-street card and crap games, poking female pedestrians with electrically-charged canes. But, because of the Legionaries' advancing years, the presence of their wives and a curt preliminary warning from Commander Ray Murphy to "act your age," such highjinks were far less frequent than at past conventions. Serious members were sobered by knowledge that its 18th convention marked a critical milestone in the Legion's public career. The $1,900,000,000 bonus, its goal of years, had been won nine years before it was due. Would the Legion now follow...