Word: oft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wily Odysseus' successful gate-crashing scheme of the Wooden Horse. Though he contributes no mighty lines or markedly memorable verse to the Troy legend, Masefield's dramatic narrative, in which different speakers take up the story in turn, adds some freshness of its own to an oft-told tale...
...counted eight sharks. For 15 minutes unnoticed by the battling fish they watched while the water grew red about the boat. Then there was a lull and a moment later the swordfish appeared floating belly up on the surface. Before the sharks could devour it the fishermen drove them oft. hoisted what was left of the carcass into their boat. Minus head and tail it weighed nearly...
...initials is now forgotten, along with a hundred others, but what the teacher said still rings in his ears as loudly and crassly as the day when first she said it. The phrase she used is so old as to be termed a "saw", "Fools names like fools faces oft are seen in public places". Not very funny, not very new, but biting...
...satirical barrage against the "Modern Intellectual." He presents as a composite of certain characteristics in colleges today a fictitious professor in a fictitious western university, both devoid of tradition and culture, and both supremely materialistic in outlook. Easterners will experience a smug satisfaction in this confirmation of their oft-voiced contempt for western materialism, but a more critical examination will reveal a disconcerted irony in Mr. Tunis's glowing praise for the dusty culture of the East...
...This vital fire below is the pressure of chambers of commerce and of nations of further their own individual interests. Individuals are not so much to blame, nor the oft-abused Congressmen; it is a concentration of pressure at Washington that keeps in operation a tariff which is approved by few. Such tariffs, in the opinion of Frank Simonds, lead to more deaths than wars themselves...