Word: oft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most intriguing of all temporary remedies is the admittance, without qualification, of all eligible Juniors and Seniors. This would necessitate the exclusion of more Sophomores, but the second year would merely be a stormy strait with smooth sailing assured beyond. A further remedy is the oft-bandied-about House Associate Plan. Finally there is the athletic organization of out-house groups and their inclusion in the intramural set-up. The Council recommends all of these, envisioning them as a complementary whole which will raise the general standard of life of non-House students...
Harsh realists when it comes to dealing with China and the rest of the world, the Japanese have retained all their ancient mysticism as far as the Emperor and his family are concerned. Last week the owl-eyed Son of Heaven himself watched an oft-repeated ceremony in the Imperial household, the donning of the sacred maternity girdle to mark the ninth month of the Empress' pregnancy...
...machinations of international Communism and international Jewry, or rave as he would that he was just a Pan-German trying to get all the Germans back in one nation, Führer Hitler had himself become the world's No. 1 International Revolutionist?so much so that if the oft-predicted struggle between Fascism and Communism now takes place it will be only because two revolutionist dictators. Hitler and Stalin, are too big to let each other live in the same world...
...Everybody hereabouts recognizes that the biggest job of the next 18 months is to get the economic recovery machine going. This means a meshing of business and Government action. If Harry Hopkins makes a success of it, and the business men feel he has accomplished something affirmative in the oft-talked-about but little-realized Government-&-business cooperation policy, it will be because the man now being suggested for the Department of Commerce portfolio will have brought left and right wings together in a practical...
...Stalin. Until last summer all his work was in the Transcaucasian republics, especially Georgia, where he headed the secret police for 16 years. He is known as the "Stalin of the Caucasus." Now 39, he is one of several younger officials recently given high government posts which the oft-purged older generation of Bolsheviks is apparently either incompetent or afraid to fill...