Word: often
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three years she had lived in the U. S., and although her friends were many, she remained always solemn, quiet; some said homesick for the sunny slopes near Lake Kivu in Belgian Congo, where she had been captured. The immediate cause of death was colitis, an intestinal disease often contracted by man, but not often fatal...
...reality these are outnumbered by the many who see it merely as one of the ways of learning his own possibilities. Such training may rarely produce vocational certainties and its specific usefulness is as various as individuals. Yet it is a testing wand which, if the student is earnest, often betrays many an unknown vein...
...best known of Baumes Laws states among its provisions that any criminal who is convicted for a fourth time of felony is automatically sentenced to life imprisonment. Serious criticism has recently been directed at this act because it is felt that injustice is often inflicted. This law was passed in New York in 1926 and has since been adopted by several other States. It has been a subject for much discussion among the foremost lawyers of the nation...
...Senator Borah and Representative Tinkham have their way, all the fire works of nullification, states fights et al will be revived after an unbroken, if often troubled, slumber of nearly a century. Andrew Jackson's spirit doubtless smiles faintly, as it observes the dismay that spreads cloudlike over the visages of presidential candidates cornered by these two assiduous members of Congress. To be asked about the Eighteenth Amendment was bad enough, but with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, never mentioned except in the appendices of school histories, unearthed and held as a mirror to the poor candidate, one ceases...
WHEN America's present posperity, and with it all its creations disappear? The question has often been asked, and as often found a new answer. Usually it is the economist who writes, but in this case a son of American prosperity, a Wall street banker, provides an answer which, perhaps because of its very non-scholarly writing, will attract the business...