Word: oft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Both Your Houses," which is an excellent survey of the chief flaws in the House Plan. Discussing the system from the point of view of one who has been disappointed for various reasons with the fruits of Mr. Harkness' generous gifts, Alvah W. Sulloway '38 brings into print "what oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed." He finds that the House plan "lacks the ability to integrate the social and intellectual life of the college." This point is carried throughout the article, and the success of the Plympton and Mount Auburn Street boarding houses is directly the result...
Tangible evidence of the oft repeated press agents' blurb, "You'll laugh and you'll cry", is found in: Three Smart Girls, starring that remarkable youngster, Deanna Durbin. Whatever mistakes may have been made in the earlier portions of the film are compensated for in the cleverly built up climax, which "packs a strong emotional wallop...
Bingham, who usually speaks at the initial track meetings, reiterated his oft-quoted remarks that track was his favorite sport and paid a special tribute to Jaakko Mikkola, track coach, as well as the whole coaching staff of the college...
Also in the choral line are the two concerts by the oft-heard and ever popular Vienna Choir Boys, on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. This unusual group not only sings sacred pieces, folk songs, and the like, but also gives one-act operettas in costume with all appropriate acting and staging...
...second addition to the campaign was Alf Landon's final effort to pin down Franklin Roosevelt on his intention of reviving or of not reviving NRA. Either stand would have cost the New Deal votes. At Madison Square Garden, twenty cheering thousands helped Alf Landon drive home his oft-repeated challenge. At the same place two nights later Franklin Roosevelt had twenty other cheering thousands to applaud his indignant denial of the charge that his intentions are unknown...