Word: often
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...line tamped it as distinctly superior to the second-string trio, and also to any combination Yale had to offer. Zarakov's two goals were both gems; Scott's all-around play ranked him with Noble as the outstanding player on the ice; Tudor failed to score, but threatened often. The second line played true to form, failing to produce any goals, but checking the Yale attack well. When this trio was on the ice the game often slowed up and several minutes passed with little action...
Coach Brown declared that the class crews have often felt that the crew selected to race Yale was really not the best eight. Men who have rowed in these class shells have suggested that the results of three prelinduary races should determine the choice of the crew to be sent to Derby. But even when this is done, Coach Brown said, the feeling of injustice is apt to remain, so it is probable that a committee from the class eights will meet with the coaches this year to choose the representative boat...
...That this is pessimism there can be no denying. But that it is side-stepping the issue, as it may seem to many, is hardly true. Mr. Johnson has devoted almost a hundred pages to an elaboration of the principle of that dog-bitting man who has been so often slandered in this connection, and one feels with him at the end the futility of any other definition of news than that with which he ends his book...
...market. If he has something attractive to sell, and also has the knack of putting himself forward, of advertising himself, he san get a great deal. If he has merely merit, but cannot make people want him, he gets very little. And the good scholar, the cogent thinker, is often a very poor advertiser...
...characters of this novel are articulate; they speak in conventional phrase, but the authoress has exhibited considerable dexterity in uncovering, sometimes gently, often ironically, what they really mean and what emotions within are contending with the sham of their spoken words. It has been Miss Parish's distinct triumph that she has accomplished this largely within the speeches of of the characters themselves, and has not resorted to tedious obiter dicta. Futhermore, she has decorated their halting or dissembling utterances with the impressionistic detail that filled their minds at the time,--the flowers on the table, a wide sweep...