Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those who are unfamiliar with the workings of the Avukah, it seems both impractical and ineffectual. This idea is, in fact, false. A large organization, it has chapters at every important college or university with frequent local, regional and national councils. It occupies itself with the problem of bettering the Jewish position all over the world and especially in America. Cooperating with all sorts of committees for the preservation of civil liberties, it works, first of all, to protect the Jew from the dangers of fascism and reaction. It is, of course, a Zionist organization. But this problem...
...Nutritional diseases are widespread. "The lack of protein," says Dr. Lim, "is particularly important. . . . Healing of wounds is slow and infections of all kinds are frequent in the undernourished soldier. The lack of fat ... is responsible for the frequency of hemeralopia [blindness under bright lights]." Beriberi, a disease caused by vitamin B deficiency, is common in Southern China, where the main food is polished rice...
Their duties will be nominal, since the offices in Massachusetts Hall have been taking care of things smoothly during the course of President Conant's frequent visits to Washington in the interests of national defense...
MAIGRET TO THE RESCUE - Georges Simenon - Harcourt, Brace ($2). Another splendid brace of Inspector Maigret stories translated from the French. Frequent dollops of Pernod improve everyone's perceptions...
...graduate students in New York City colleges and universities. Of its 1,500 resident and nonresident members, about a third are foreigners. U. S. students like to live there because it is friendly and cheap (average room rent: $7 a week), looks after their health, holds frequent dances and is as good as a world tour. There they may meet Icelanders, Indians, Liberians, South Africans, Turks, Swedes, Japanese, Chinese, Swiss, South Sea Islanders...