Word: oft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attained the highest figure in five years ($620,000,000), while airconditioning equipment production, cigaret sales and electric power output were at all-time peaks. Moreover, retail sales were zooming happily. Payrolls were still fattening. In view of such indices the prospect for fall business looked much like an oft-batted tennis ball which when dropped still has plenty of bounce, but not quite so much as human hearts have hoped...
...left his rustic village retreat, came jolting into Wardha on a bullock cart. Had the Mahatma expected opposition, he would have first half starved himself, then insisted upon walking instead of riding in a bullock cart, would have staggered into the Congress Committee and inspired his disciples with their oft-repeated "pangs of remorse for the suffering we cause the Mahatma by our unworthiness." Smugly the Times of London editorialized its "profound satisfaction," noted that the executive committee described Britain and India as "the exploiter and the exploited." Even this did not lessen Britain's "profound satisfaction," the Times...
Respecting his long sojourn in Boston, he comments to his class secretary as follows: "Finally, I have learned to face with equanimity the oft made discovery that I am an Eli-in Boston...
...spending. Of course, this was the underlying fiscal philosophy of the whole New Deal, and Mr. Eccles came to be rated the arch-apologist of spending. Last week Mr. Eccles suddenly reversed his economic field, to the shocked surprise of all but a few who had not forgotten his oft-made point that his theory worked also vice versa...
...chanteuse and now wife of Keats College's brilliant mathematician, Professor Barry. Barry has become a corpse, whereat it is brought to light that many of the Faculty members owe gambling debts to him, while he himself was trying to muscle in on the metropolitan numbers racket. The chief oft the numbers racket is a boy fiend of the professor's wife. Those are the elements; write the story your own way but the plot doesn't really matter. All that does count is that Overman is sufficiently much of an actor to make one of those clever mysteries movies...