Word: often
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...this connection the lack of individual freedom is often striking, as in the case of choosing a profession, when it is considered monstrous for a young man to decide for himself without the formal consent of his family. The whole emotional sentiment of the race makes a Frenchman regard the welfare of the community before his personal privileges and rights...
...powerful counter forces--passive curiosity, and contemptuous interest--are frequently met with. The former, attitude, characteristic of blase travellers in pursuit of novel experiences, is directly opposite to the spirit of the traveller St. Paul, whose benevolent sympathy yearned for the enlightenment of his brothers. The latter spirit is often found in missionaries who adopt a fashionable contempt, often disparaging and villifying the people whom they are pretending to raise. It is their narrow mindedness which causes them to apply to foreign religions the comparatively local and conventional standards of the West. We will find that in many cases...
...simple and perspicuous and does not require a detailed analysis, but it is handled in a witty and clever manner, and there is not a dull line in the whole comedy. It is a play of unquestionable artistic merit and a striking refutation of the charge of heaviness so often raised against German writers...
...defense the team is very strong and the men cover their opponents closely. It is not likely that the formation plays from the tossup will be successful this evening as the Columbia centre is clever and quick. The men still show a tendency to play an individual game and often dribble out of bounds unnecessarily...
...simple and perspicuous and does not require a detailed analysis, but it is handled in a witty and clever manner, and there is not a dull line in the whole comedy. It is a play of unquestionable artistic merit and a striking refutation of the charge of heaviness so often raised against German writers. Nothing could be more succinct or of quicker movement than this delightful and innocent comedy...