Word: often
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Peabody knew no local bounds. He was a leader of his profession, known all over the country while still a comparatively young man. In his fellow physicians he commanded respect and affection; in his patients the utmost confidence; and in students of medicine and young doctors, ardent devotion often close to hero-worship. He filled a high place in the medical world, not only because of his professional skill, but because of the unselfish spirit which lent the crowning light to a naturally charming personality. In the long illness which preceded his death the strength and beauty of his character...
...Repertory production is considerably above the average one expects on a repertory stage. The set which served for all three acts was attractive. The acting, though often a bit stiff, was on the whole perfectly satisfactory...
...battle against the microscopic forces of disease is one that never ceases. But the returns from the front appear so rarely in newspaper headlines that the winning of skirmishes for humanity often goes unrecognized. The notable sally made by the Harvard Infantile Paralysis Commission during the past few weeks escaped notice until a minor epidemic alarmed those of the public who still remember ravages caused by the disease...
...undergraduate at a small New England college I have many times shouted myself hoarse as The Team came through with a hard-earned victory over a supposedly superior rival; and more often have I similarly cheered on The Team to the inevitable end of a hopeless contest as, outweighed many pounds to a man, worn out by the innumerable fresh substitutes of the opposition, exhausted by four periods of fighting against overwhelming odds, they have crawled of their hands and knees to the scrimmage line, put up a desperate stonewall defense in the shadow of the posts and prevented...
...arrives at the Grand Banks it does one of three things. It either drifts off towards the East where it is destroyed by the Gulf Stream or drifts aground, if it is a particularly large berg, on the Banks themselves, where it is pounded to pieces by the waves. Often a berg will skirt the Banks and drift southward into the Transatlantic shipping lanes where it becomes a menace to liners and merchantmen, and provides work for the Ice Patrol...