Word: oft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oft do the Academic grooves echo the charge that Catholic colleges are dogmatically prejudiced in their handling of new scientific discoveries and theories. Professors in these institutions, the charge continues, whose duty it is to truly illumine the mind of the knowledge-seeking youth, avoid the unbiased truth as they would a plague. An honest examination of a representative Catholic college curriculum will dissipate even so hoary an opinion in the mind of the honest seeker of truth. It is well, however, at times to be rallied out of our smugness and take the field aggressively against our talkative...
These and many more events of 1926 were in the minds of scientific gentlemen who thronged, about 1,000 strong, in 15 sections and 43 allied societies, to Drexel Institute, Philadelphia. There their retiring president, Professor Michael Idvorsky Pupin, onetime Serbian shepherd, now oft-honored electro-physicist of Columbia University, greeted them with poetic discourse upon the progress of electrical communication, beginning with James Clerk Maxwell's monograph on magnetism in 1873 and Heinrich Rudolf Hertz's experiments with pulsations in the ether in 1889, through Marconi's practical application of Hertz's discoveries, to modern radio and radiotelephony. Himself...
...quest that drove him. He had just learned of his irregular birth and, to cap that, of his father's guilty love with Guinevere-wIth Guinevere, embodiment of all perfections, inculcatrix of his brightest ideals, his spiritual mother and above all, King Arthur's wife! Galahad rode oft, snorting, but not without a lecture from Arthur himself upon the presumptuous folly of children judging their parents. Galahad not only vexed Lance lot but naturally embarrassed him greatly in the early days, before Guinevere's first blind jealousy abated. She would not listen to Lancelot's story...
...stage with prismatic voluptuousness. It jollies the audience. Charles ("Chic") Sale appears in Yankee caricatures, a pleasant departure from the stale Jewish, Irish, Italian, Russian, Negro takeoffs. His comedy is the show's high spot. There is a funny skit wherein a neglected wife rebels against the oft-repeated "Good night, Mother of Three" adieus of a husband who goes out every evening. She retaliates with, "Good night, Father...
...oft they do when our learn'd Youths commence...