Word: often
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that this man was by way of becoming the Democratic nominee for President, Mrs. Smith, as she lay among her pillows, flowers and relatives, must have wondered often what it would be like to live in the White House. And while she was musing thus, many another lady, conscious that who shall be First Lady of the land is not an unimportant matter socially, wondered what this candidate's wife was like, Mrs. Katherine Dunn Smith...
...summing up, the Lord Chief Justice, Baron Hewart, came near to sneering at the petty successes of the accused. Said he: "The word spy has been used time after time in this case. The word seems misapplied when used concerning either of you. A spy is very often a brave man who, for the sake of his country, encounters a very serious personal risk, but in these matters you have been doing nothing for your country...
...French Line. Landing at Havre, he was welcomed by the Mayor. Stepping off his train at the Gare St. Lazare, he was embraced by the Military Governor of Paris, sleek General Henri Joseph Etienne Gouraud. French throngs jammed the station, crying "Vive L'Ambassadeur! Vive Herrick!" Not often does France welcome so tried and sterling a friend as the U. S. Ambassador, Myron Timothy Herrick, who returned, last week, after a long, treacherous illness at his home in Cleveland, to Paris, his other home...
...Speaking of golf, you have a good team over there at Harvard. Golf is certainly an interesting game; I play every time I get an opportunity. People often wonder why there is such a store of material for jokes in golf. I think that it is because golf has such a human side to it. Every one that plays, usually suffers his own particular ailment, and anyone watching him, who plays golf, feels sorry...
...proclaimed in these facts, it does not necessarily follow that the midyear marks will show a generally higher average. Admitting that most of the tests have laid a distinct emphasis on the Reading Period assignments, there seems to be an almost unanimous sentiment among students that these assignments were often too heavy, and that as a result, the midyear examination found the student either insufficiently read or ill-reviewed on the work which preceded the Christmas recess...