Word: frequenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Although frequent use of capitals of express The Big Ideas is annoying and the prose often cumbersome, the primary fault of the book is its over-simplification. To present the character of Bogard, Frede resorts to a modern-day equivalent of good and bad angels. Bogard's thoughts are conveyed through two of his mental creations named Slide Rule and The Third Person. Calculation and commitment contend for the sould of the present generation...
...toast. (Harold watches with a surly viligance; there's always the chance that the grim, spindly individual who passes for an all-night cafeteria cook might slight students on butter.) Harold is careful not to tear apart and devour the bread; his meal is precise and aristocratic, punctuated with frequent glasses of free water...
...steady diet of Bible reading and chores, but when these were done, the lusty young Eisenhowers were discharged to tumble in the cavernous hayloft out back, above Uncle Abraham Eisenhower's veterinarian establishment. Milton, frail and spindly from scarlet fever in his fourth year, was a frequent outcast kibitzer, to be seized unawares by mischievous hands and flung bodily into the black haymow amid terrifying cries of "Lions! Tigers! Snakes...
...long been an American boast that we have a Government of laws and not of men. We believe that any study of recent decisions of the Supreme Court will raise at least considerable doubt as to the validity of that boast . . . Frequent differences and occasional overrulings of prior decisions in constitutional cases cause us grave concern as to whether individual views of the members of the court [on] what is wise or desirable do not unconsciously override a more dispassionate consideration of what is or is not constitutionally warranted...
Much confusion-and a good reason why every company can claim perfection-arises from the fact that cigarette testing is still an inexact science. There is no uniform standard on how many cigarettes need be sampled, which automatic smoking machines to use, how strong, long or frequent the puffs should be, how to trap the hundreds of different substances lumped together as "tar." Result: each company naturally uses whatever tests serve it best...