Word: often
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sentiment? But what big men has West Virgina got? Senator So-and-so, I suppose, and Senator Whozis. I never heard of them. They can't stack up against Fess and Willis. I live only 50 miles from the Ohio River (you notice it's called Ohio River) and often see copies of the Charleston Gazette. They're hardly literate even on their newspapers...
...press launched a thoroughgoing preparedness scare (see FRANCE). It almost seemed that Parisian editors must have had their editorials ready in advance. Perhaps they had. The relations between the French and Belgian Governments are so close that what is going to be said by the Government at Brussels is often known in advance and sometimes dictated by the Government at Paris. What is the foreign policy of Belgium...
...often that a good deed is remembered two hundred years afterward. Those men who have formed a society of bibliophiles under the name of the John Barnard Associates have done an excellent and very fitting thing; for it was the Reverend Mr. Barnard, who, in the middle of the last century, replaced the old library which had been lost by fire with a new one of his own. The colleges in those days was not the prosperous organization it is now, and such a gift meant as much then as would the gift of a new library today, should Widener...
When, however, the sun is eclipsed by a process which has become tiresome, so often has it been repeated and so simple are its mechanics in comparison with those other events in the history of the stars, then astronomy finds the headlines of every newspaper in the country, then Dr. Shapley is besieged by reporters, and his work and that of his associates is the subject of columns of space. Likewise, the announcement that Harvard will establish a new station in South Africa finds its way into a prominent place in the evening newspapers under the heading. "Harvard Will Have...
...most readers at Harvard will first turn are those devoted to Mr. Donald Gibbs' "Sawdust Trails in the College"--a kind of "apologia", it may be conjectured, for a recent remark which attained a wider currency than its author intended. Mr. Gibbs' subject is the 'student conference' which too often reaches, in the name of a free discussion of educational problems, no higher result than the training up of the student delegates who attend toward a "future of fair Rotarian godliness"; and he treats it with a lively, slightly vitriolic pen, and the authority of one who has suffered...