Word: frequently
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Most successful international language is plain English, which is spoken by some 225,000,000 people and is assiduously taught and eagerly learned from Helsingfors to Yokohama. Among the made or doctored languages, Esperanto has the most numerous and enthusiastic devotees, who hold frequent congresses and enjoy an extensive literature either written in their tongue or translated into it. But if not already a "dead" language, Esperanto is at least a static one, for its adherents have refused to change it since 1880 when it was launched by its inventor, Dr. Lazarus Zamenhof of Poland. Says Henry Louis Mencken...
...Duke of Windsor has not yet paid rent on Castle Enzesfeld, although its Rothschild owners left some weeks ago, a polite hint. By last week Austrian police, correspondents and such Government officials as have frequent contact with His Royal Highness had in fact soured on Edward. Typical comment: "He gives orders to everybody, shouts and gets furious if police, railway officials and the rest don't jump. The de luxe through express trains have to be stopped to put him down or pick him up from tiny ski stations, something neither the President nor the Chancellor of Austria would...
...many undergraduates who frequent the University Theatre deep mystery may surround the activities of a certain man who sits in the front row of the balcony, clutching a telephone...
...years ago Dr. Gustaf Stromberg of Mt. Wilson Observatory, an able cosmologist who wears clothes like a janitor's and plays a radio while doing telescope work, evolved a theory which would allow solar systems to be much more frequent...
...several months more she was in bed moving her hands and feet aimlessly, often whining and crying like a very young child and the only articulation one could understand was her frequent calling for 'Mamma, Mamma,' although her mother had passed to the 'great beyond' some thirty years before. The patient would take a towel or any cloth, roll it up and hug it to her as if it were a rag doll. She now required liquid nourishment because she would not chew, and soon she had to be fed liquids with a spoon, taking them...