Word: often
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...money in raising the salary of professors and instructors: since, from personal experience. I know that the present system of awarding scholarships is to say the least, rank: aid being given men who should not even apply for it, while the deserving are all too often rejected...
...spectacle of the two parties opposing in one and the same campaign their two outstanding men, and not dodging with compromise candidates that do not satisfy the parties, the delegates, or the nation. An amazing spectacle, certainly, and one that promises somewhat more government by the people than that often-mouthed phrase usually means...
Somewhere in the makeup of the most efficient and energetic American is a weakness for parades and few obligations will keep him from stopping to watch one go by. Yet often processions that are arranged for his sole benefit meet with the most complete neglect, as witness the substantial deficit remaining to Mr. Pyle after the completion of his cross country "bunion derby". In Nebraska another attempted parade has just fallen through. This time it is the calvacade of indignant farmers in autos that was expected to descend upon Kansas City and impress upon the Republican Convention gathered there...
Last year Author Oppenheim passed his literary centennial, and still his pen flows pleasantly on, delighting tired doctor, lawyer, merchant, businessman. Though his 103 plots bear a family resemblance, they are often distinguished, as here, by novel features of mystery and intrigue...
...part of tragic Tito. While it puts some limit upon his metamorphic talent, he is able still to twist his face into many a contorted grin and to slobber frequently with sorrow. Laugh, Clown, Laugh is a trite picture and not a true one, but it succeeds surprisingly often in its lugubrious intentions...