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Word: frequently (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Markels will make the trip to Cambridge and personally direct the music. Although he has not supplied the music for Junior Dances in some time, in 1914 he was a frequent visitor to Cambridge, and in that and the years immediately preceding played for the affair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW YORK ORCHESTRA TO FEATURE JUNIOR DANCE | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

...habit of Director David Lew-elyn Wark Griffith to sentimentalize his sound themes, to intensify the subtlety of a straightforward situation by allowing the lens of his camera to point for long and frequent intervals at the almost im mobile face of one of his characters. This he does under the name of art; its effect upon the cinema is most unhealthy, be cause it prevents the plot from achieving a proper momentum. Aside from this foible, Director Griffith is consistently aware of his story's potentialities. His photography is always dextrous, at times brilliantly effective. Director Griffith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 6, 1928 | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

...president of another university remarked some time ago that one of the impediments to be avoided by such an institution was that of traditions; to which the reply was made that there was one tradition of which the speaker would doubtless approve, and that was the tradition of frequent change. We certainly have that tradition here, for we have been continually making experiments, and we hope wise ones. We have, indeed, some reason to suppose so, because they are being made in a definite direction with a constant object. That object, so far as the students are concerned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REPORT DISCUSSES READING PERIOD | 2/1/1928 | See Source »

Youth. Born 73 years ago on a farm in Lorain County, Ohio, child Herrick was not even then so remote from France and culture as to escape frequent readings aloud by his father of many a "standard work," among them those of Victor Hugo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Cleveland in Paris | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

...critic--even the trained critic versed in past as well as present literature--is never infallible. Professorial critics, however, who of all others should render verdicts most trustworthy, make too frequent concessions to that infallibility. Because one's judgement is respected by thousands is no reason for one to hall each worthy book as a new masterpiece--even though the foundation of one's criticism be admittedly purely personal and individual. Professor Phelps is undoubtedly the target for the Nation's rebuke, and it must be admitted that Professor Phelps has given sufficient cause on certain occasions. His penchant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THOUGH THEY KNOW BETTER | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

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