Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...known to Kansans. Left motherless at 13 months and reared by a soft-voiced, Irish nurse named Theresa Cahill, she was only 6 when her father began taking her on some of his oil-prospecting trips around the State. Ever since then they have been close companions. On his frequent nights away from home he always telephoned her at bedtime, and when he was home he would always hear her prayers, finish off with a rousing pillow-fight...
...paying 3 % interest guaranteed by the State. In turn the State will exact for the next 60 years from former tithe-payers sums which, if fully paid, will then wipe out the obligation forever in 1996 A.D. Up & down England's countryside tithe riots have been frequent, and police seeking to find and seize cattle and other possessions of farmers who refuse to pay have disguised themselves as yokels, wandered about with straw in mouth on snooping expeditions, have been roughly handled when unmasked by genuine yokels...
...first definitely Socialist Cabinet France has ever had are her star guests. Always the place of honor is occupied by "The Bull," heavy-jowled Edouard Daladier, Minister of Defense. Not long ago M. Daladier wrested control of the Radical Socialist Party from paunchy old Edouard Herriot, also a frequent guest of the Marquise de Crussol, and the possibility of a Left coup d' état is never mentioned without mentioning the Bull, who today commands the Army...
...theory about such prophetic dreams, which make frequent news-stories, is that they are simple-minded fables. Quite different is the elaborate, long-pondered theory of John William Dunne, British soldier, engineer, sportsman and aeronautical inventor.* Nearly 40 years ago John William Dunne began to have dreams which waking experiences later confirmed. He dreamed, for example, that his watch had stopped at a certain time, woke to find that it had indeed stopped at that time. He had prophetic dreams of the Martinique volcano explosion and earthquake, of the arrival in Khartoum of a Cape-to-Cairo expedition...
...seriousness of this possible transition Dr. Affleck compared a group of Johns Hopkins patients who had benign melanoma (moles) excised with another group who suffered from malignant melanoma (black cancers). Four out of five of the cancers had started as moles. Dr. Affleck found that moles occurred most frequently on the face and neck, next most frequently on chest, back, arms, abdomen, legs. Black cancers appeared most frequently on the legs, arms, face, neck and back. "Highest incidence," noted Dr. Affleck, "is apparently in those areas most subject to trauma, the foot and the great toe being the most frequent...