Word: oft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Guided in general by sectarian and sectional feeling, the commission put in the favorite hymn of the Methodist Protestants : Take time to be holy, speak oft with thy Lord: Abide in him always, and feed on His Word; Make friends of God's children, help those that arc weak, Forgetting in nothing his blessing to seek...
Harvard has taken a bold step, but whether the step is forward or backward is a question. According to President Conant, the intention is to make drastic reductions in expenses for athletics and at the same time to build up an endowment fund to lessen the oft-decried commercialization of sport. The first is possible, but hardly desirable, the second desirable, but hardly possible...
When Communistic organizations are allowed public expression for their views, the oft-repeated charge of Fascism in education becomes pointless. Any attempt at censorship in the name of Democracy, moreover, is absurd and dangerous. Among liberal democratic ideals the freedom of the individual--which involves freedom of expression and of publication--is fundamental. Minorities, if we are to avoid crystallization and decay, must be allowed to criticize existing conditions and in turn to submit their proposals to criticism, so that the evil or the unworkable may be rejected and the valuable utilized. The defensive panic of reactionaries, rather than...
Whose far-flung beauty oft had I heard tell...
...near future, by assuring industry that the government will not tolerate attempts at domination by labor, by pledging non-partisan distribution of federal funds, and the maintenance of national credit, he can aid in breaking the present dam which is keeping billions of dollars from normal investment. Retracting his oft-repeated thrusts at the banking profession he can bring about that salutary cooperation between government and finance which has been one of the fundamental causes of British recovery...