Word: frequently
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What with the chauffeuring of kids, shopping excursions, trips to tennis and golf clubs twenty or more minutes away and frequent journeys to summer houses in Wisconsin or Michigan, the gasoline bills are enormous. Mrs. Gibson averages $55 a month for her 1976 Chevrolet Chevelle sedan, which gets 16 miles to the gallon. Her husband spends double that for his 12 m.p.g. Mercedes, which he uses for commuting. John Schmeltzer, editor of the local Suburban Trib, believes that car-buying, if not car-driving, habits are slowly changing. Says he: "People have come down from the huge Cadillacs to Buicks...
Things have been tense in Robinson Hall for quite some time. The History Department has been split by department factionalism, there are frequent complaints about faculty-graduate student interaction, and to top it off the job prospects for history Ph.D.'s are among the worst in the academic community...
Wearing his characteristic fishing hat and sunglasses, Thompson complained about the glaring lights and fielded a variety of questions from the crowd. The queries ranged from drugs to politics, punctuated by frequent screams of "Adrenochrome," an obscure drug Thompson refers to in his book, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas...
...first proposals would prevent the number of concentrations from growing and the second would make visiting committee reviews more thorough but less frequent. Visiting committees now often stay on campus for only one or two days yearly...
...reflected in individual cases." But instead of showing the gradual dominance of personality in the public realm, Sennett shifts the scene abruptly--to the concert hall where Paganini made his violin performances more riveting than the music itself, to the barricades of 1848 where Lamartine made his frequent appearances before the workers more inspiring than his policies, and to the courtroom where Zola in J'Accuse made the matter of personal honor in the Dreyfus Case a more important question than anyone's actual guilt...