Word: oft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mark-consciousness, however, is the price of conscientiousness. Girls have "an almost neurotic feeling about grades, "Morris says. Generally they worry about degrees of Honors, reading, and other matters which the oft-more blase Harvard student regards as supercillious. "Selective" reading, some men argue, may demonstrate a greater degree of maturity than simply plowing through an entire reading list...
...here, Mr. Chairman. I find that Mr. Holifield had a press release all printed and written up before he even heard what I had to say. If you want me to come up and testify, listen to me, and then make up your minds." Holifield replied with a maxim oft quoted by Harry Truman: "If you can't stand the heat, don't go into the kitchen...
...Operator .Sally Rooke stayed at her switchboard to warn the people of Folsom, N.Mex. of a flash flood until she herself was swept to death by the waters. A Chicago couple who reached a phone just before being overcome by leaking gas gave the operator who summoned help an oft-voiced tribute: "We wish to thank you for saving our lives...
However, this new and somewhat more involved procedure would seem to be unnecessary. With all due respect for the oft-mentioned Harvard tradition, it would probably be better to do away with the office of Class Marshal altogether. At present, the Marshals are merely figureheads of the Senior Class during its spring term in College. The members of the Permanent Class Committee (one from each House) together with the Marshals draw up a Class Constitution which outlines the leadership of the Class after graduation. It is quite possible, and indeed often the case, that the Marshals will never serve...
Like Magellan. Dr. Speert, 43, subtitles his book Essays in Eponymy, and stoutly defends the oft-criticized practice of naming matters medical for their discoverers. These men are as much entitled to be so commemorated, he suggests, as pioneers in other spheres whose eponyms are undisputed-the Strait of Magellan, Mount Everest, Halley's comet. But his book is for fellow specialists, and he does not advocate that laymen learn the jargon of the clinical conference...