Word: often
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hell, for instance. Regarding the subject of religion and politics, he said that the two are in this country indissolubly associated; that the love of country is the next thing to the love of God, and that during the civil war evidence of the greatest devotion to country was often shown...
...with favor in England. "The game in which this misuse of terms is most rampant, and to which I especially desire to direct attention," the writer concludes, "is lawn tennis. Players and manufacturers call 'rackets' 'bats.' Cricket is played with a bat, lawn tennis with a racket. 'Strokes' are often called 'points' and 'aces;' a 'service' is called a 'serve;' a 'rest' is known as a 'rally;' the 'sides' (of the net) become 'ends;' the 'striker out' is transformed into the 'non-server,' and the 'server' into the 'striker;' sometimes they are called 'hand-in' and 'hand-out,' when tennis...
...admirers of Attwood will be pleased to see the sketches contributed by that well known artist. He again returns to a topic that has been treated so often by his pen - General Butler. The picture of the "State House of Boston," with its suggestion of Butler, is particularly good...
...book which is out at that time, the librarian could send a notice to the borrower, requesting him to return the book as soon as he had finished reading it. In this way the book, if in demand, would pass as rapidly as possible from student to student, often, doubtless, being kept out even less than two weeks, while, on the other hand, no one would be compelled to cut short the time he retains possession of the book for purpose of study or reference...
...work for the whole nine. Small scores are the natural result. A team knows that it cannot do much of anything itself against an effective delivery, and so devotes its energies to keeping the other side from doing anything. Success in a game depends, too often, not on particularly good play on the part of the winners, but on some particular error or succession of errors on the part of the losers. Base-ball is frequently as much a game of chance as of skill. Some change will have to be made before long in the method of play...