Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Complaints about the final examination system are frequent and loud, and the fact that nothing substantial has been done about it seems to indicate that no adequate substitute to fit the needs of Harvard College has been found. A few courses use term papers, but so few that they hardly presage any large-scale alteration in the system. The unchanging nature of examinations, though perhaps impressive in traditionalist argument, hardly answers the large number of intelligent charges made against them...
Exeter couldn't hit the ring. The prep-school's frequent but wild shots were hooked off the backboard by the taller Crimson quintet and racked into the winning total from every corner of the court. Ed Smith accounted for 25 points personally...
Harvard will start its usual first team to oppose this juggernaut. Wally Sears, generally the squad's most frequent blinker of the red light, will start at left wing, alongside center Dave Key and right wingman Shaw McKean...
...Henri. Upsets were frequent in the winter Olympics' final days. The highly touted U.S. two-man bobsledders got whipped. So did France's curvaceous Georgette Thiellière-Miller, regarded as the world's best woman skier. But a flashy countryman of hers-Henri Oreiller, a 21-year-old sunburnt peasant boy from Val d'Isère-was the only person to win two gold medals in 1948's winter Olympics. He hurtled a snow-covered slope to win the men's downhill, and won the Alpine Combined event, too. Swedes kept grinding...
...despite its flaws and its frequent failures, "Raintree County" is worth a few days' wading-through, if only to experience those scattered portions of the mass that crop up almost without warning to give the impression of real greatness. Lockridge displays direct inheritance from Welfe and from Joyee and from Dos Passes, but most of the time it is all Lockridge and the good earth of Raintree County...