Word: frequently
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...translated by Florence Hammond. The late Bernard Berenson, the American critic who trained his eye on Italian Renaissance art and his tongue in the art of conversation, was both wise and wise guy when discussing painting, disseminating gossip, or commenting on life. Count Morra, one of Berenson's frequent guests, fortunately took notes...
...Under the 1929 Warsaw Convention, a civil aviation treaty now covering 92 nations, the heirs of those who died on international flights could for many years collect only a maximum of $8,291*-unless they could prove willful misconduct. The U.S., whose citizens are the world's most frequent and most affluent air travelers, has for years considered this figure ridiculously low. Even after 45 of the Warsaw signers agreed to double the liability to $16,582 in 1955, the U.S. felt that the increase was not nearly enough, declined to ratify the new protocol...
Talk Thesaurus. One of Berenson's frequent guests, Count Umberto Morra, had bad manners and took notes; and these notes, recorded between 1931 and 1940, have now been assembled in a book that will not soon find its equal as a thesaurus of talk...
Henry A. Kissinger '50, professor of Government and frequent advisor to Presidents, has been appointed special consultant to Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge in Vietnam...
...problems of living beneath the sea were varied and puzzling. All the men suffered frequent headaches, occasional absentmindedness, and the strange experience of waking at night perspiring even while feeling bone-chilling cold. Often they noticed a cloudy inability to reason quickly that became known as "the Sealab effect." In the helium-filled atmosphere of the capsule, sounds took some weird twists, and it was often hard to tell which direction a voice was coming from. Consonants got lost in the thin air. Paul became "aul" and Jell-O "ello.' "Every time someone opened his mouth," said Carpenter...